| 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: | economy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | saving, frugality |
| Synonyms: | abridgement, austerity, care, carefulness, caution, curtailment, cutback, decrease, deduction, direction, discretion, husbandry, layoff, meanness, miserliness, moratorium, niggardliness, parcity, parsimony, providence, prudence, recession, reduction, regulation, restraint, retrenchment, rollback, scrimping, shrinkage, skimping, sparingness, stinginess, supervision, thrift, thriftiness |
| Antonyms: | spending, squandering |
| Main Entry: | lack |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deficiency, need |
| Synonyms: | abridgement, absence, curtailment, dearth, decrease, default, defect, deficit, depletion, deprivation, destitution, distress, exigency, exiguity, inadequacy, inferiority, insufficience, insufficiency, loss, meagerness, miss, necessity, paucity, poverty, privation, reduction, retrenchment, scantiness, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, shortfall, shortness, shrinkage, shrinking, slightness, stint, want |
| Antonyms: | abundance, enough, excess, extra, lot, plenty, plethora, profusion, surplus |
| Main Entry: | reaction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | political conservativism |
| Synonyms: | Toryism, backlash, backsliding, counterrevolution, obscurantism, regression, relapse, retreat, retrenchment, retrogression, right, right wing, status quo, withdrawal |
| Main Entry: | shortening |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abridgment |
| Synonyms: | abbreviation, contraction, curtailment, reduction, retrenchment |
| Main Entry: | diminishment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lessening |
| Synonyms: | attenuation, declination, depreciation, diminuendo, diminution, extenuation, regression, retrenchment |
| Antonyms: | increase |
| Main Entry: | thriftiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | economy |
| Synonyms: | abridgement, austerity, care, carefulness, caution, curtailment, cutback, decrease, deduction, direction, discretion, frugality, husbandry, layoff, meanness, miserliness, moratorium, niggardliness, parcity, parsimony, providence, prudence, recession, reduction, regulation, restraint, retrenchment, rollback, scrimping, shrinkage, skimping, sparingness, stinginess, supervision, thrift |
| 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: | Economy. |
| Category: | 4. Monetary Relations |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
economy, frugality; thrift, thriftiness; care, husbandry, good housewifery, savingness, retrenchment., savings; prevention of waste, save-all; cheese parings and candle ends; parsimony.
-verbs
be economical; practice economy; economize, save; retrench; cut one's coat according to one's cloth, make both ends meet, keep within compass, meet one's expenses, pay one's way; husband (lay by)., save money, invest money; put out to interest; provide for a rainy day, save for a rainy day, provide against a rainy day, save against a rainy day; feather one's nest; look after the main chance.
-adjectives
economical, frugal, careful, thrifty, saving, chary, spare, sparing; parsimonious., underpaid.
-adverbs
sparingly; ne quid nimis.
-phrases
adde parvumparvo magnus acervus erit; magnum est vectigal parsimonia [Latin] [Cicero].
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| Antonyms: | liberality |
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