| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | economic decline |
| Synonyms: | bad times, bankruptcy, bear market, big trouble, bottom out, bust, crash, crisis, deflation, dislocation, downturn, drop, failure, hard times, inactivity, inflation, overproduction, panic, paralysis, rainy days, recession, retrenchment, sag, slide, slowness, slump, stagflation, stagnation, unemployment |
| Antonyms: | recovery, surge |
| Main Entry: | layoff |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dismissal from job or responsibility |
| Synonyms: | cutback, discharge, early retirement, respite, unemployment |
| Antonyms: | employment, hiring |
| Main Entry: | leisure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | free time and its activities |
| Synonyms: | chance, convenience, ease, freedom, holiday, idle hours, intermission, leave of absence, liberty, one's own sweet time, opportunity, pause, quiet, range, recess, recreation, relaxation, repose, requiescence, respite, rest, retirement, sabbatical, scope, spare moments, spare time, time, time off, unemployment, vacant hour, vacation |
| Antonyms: | employment, work |
| Main Entry: | recession |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | reversal of action; reduction of business activity |
| Synonyms: | bad times, bankruptcy, big trouble, bottom-out, bust, collapse, decline, deflation, depression, downturn, hard times, inflation, rainy days, shakeout, slide, slump, stagnation, unemployment |
| Notes: | a choir entering a church is a procession; leaving is a recession |
| Antonyms: | advance, inflation |
| Main Entry: | inactivity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inaction |
| Synonyms: | dawdling, dilly-dallying, dormancy, droning, goof-off time, hibernation, idleness, indolence, inertia, inertness, inoperativeness, joblessness, laze, lazing, leisure, lethargy, loafing, loitering, otiosity, own sweet time, pottering, shiftlessness, sloth, slothfulness, slouch, slowness, sluggishness, stagnation, stupor, time on one's hands, time to burn, time to kill, time-wasting, torpidity, torpor, trifling, truancy, unemployment, vegetating |
| Main Entry: | inertness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inaction |
| Synonyms: | dawdling, dilly-dallying, dormancy, droning, goof-off time, hibernation, idleness, inactivity, indolence, inertia, inoperativeness, joblessness, laze, lazing, leisure, lethargy, loafing, loitering, otiosity, own sweet time, pottering, shiftlessness, sloth, slothfulness, slouch, slowness, sluggishness, stagnation, stupor, time on one's hands, time to burn, time to kill, time-wasting, torpidity, torpor, trifling, truancy, unemployment, vegetating |
| Main Entry: | inoperativeness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inaction |
| Synonyms: | dawdling, dilly-dallying, dormancy, droning, goof-off time, hibernation, idleness, inactivity, indolence, inertia, inertness, joblessness, laze, lazing, leisure, lethargy, loafing, loitering, otiosity, own sweet time, pottering, shiftlessness, sloth, slothfulness, slouch, slowness, sluggishness, stagnation, stupor, time on one's hands, time to burn, time to kill, time-wasting, torpidity, torpor, trifling, truancy, unemployment, vegetating |
| Concept: | Depression. |
| Category: | 4. Motion with reference to direction |
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-nouns
lowering; depression; dip (concavity); abasement; detrusion; reduction., overthrow, overset, overturn; upset; prostration, subversion, precipitation., bow; courtesy, curtsy; genuflexion, genuflection, kowtow, obeisance, salaam.
-verbs
depress, lower, let down, take down, let down a peg, take down a peg; cast; let drop, let fall; sink, debase, bring low, abase, reduce, detrude, pitch, precipitate., overthrow, overturn, overset; upset, subvert, prostate, level, fell; cast down, take down, throw down, fling down, dash down, pull down, cut down, knock down, hew down; rase to the ground; trample in the dust, pull about one's ears., sit, sit down; couch, squat, crouch, stoop, bend, bow; courtesy, curtsy; bob, duck, dip, kneel; bend the knee, bow the knee, bend the head, bow the head; cower; recline (be horizontal).
-adjectives
depressed; at a low ebb; prostrate (horizontal); detrusive.
-phrases
facinus quos inquinat aequat [Lucan].
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| Antonyms: | elevation |
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| Concept: | Leisure. |
| Category: | 1. Simple voluntary action |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
leisure; convenience; spare time, spare hours, spare moments; vacant hour; time, time to spare, time on one's hands; holiday (rest); otium cum dignitate [Cicero], ease.
-verbs
have leisure; take one's time, take one's leisure, take one's ease; repose; move slowly; while away the time (inaction); be master of one's time, be an idle man.
-adjectives
leisure, leisureIy; slow; deliberate, quiet, calm, undisturbed; at leisure, at one's ease, at a loose end.
-phrases
time hanging heavy on one's hands; eile mit Weile.
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| Antonyms: | haste |
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