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Main Entry:
depression [dih-presh-uhn]
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 Thesaurus
Concept: Depression.
Category: 4. Motion with reference to direction
Synonyms:
-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].
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.
Antonyms: haste
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