recess /rē-sesˈ or rēˈses/

1. Part of a room formed by a receding of the wall
2. A niche or alcove
3. A secluded spot, a nook
4. A hidden, inner or secret place (often in pl)
5. A small indentation or depression
6. A sinus
7. Temporary cessation of business, esp the adjournment of a lawcourt, or of Parliament during a vacation
8. A break or interval during a school day (N American)
9. A holiday period during the academic year (N American)
10. A going back or withdrawing
11. Retirement (obsolete)
12. Seclusion (obsolete)

1. To make a recess in
2. To put into a recess
3. To suspend temporarily (N American)

To adjourn

recessedˈ adjective

recession /ri-seshˈən/ noun

1. The act of receding
2. Withdrawal
3. The state of being set back
4. Part of a wall, etc that recedes
5. A slight temporary decline in a country's trade, specif one identified by two successive quarters without growth

recessional /ri-seshˈən-əl/ adjective noun

A hymn sung during recession or retirement of clergy and choir after a service

recessˈionary adjective

Of or relating to an economic recession

recessionista /-ēsˈta/ noun (informal)

A woman who strives to remain fashionable despite financial constraints arising from a recession

recessive /-sesˈ/ adjective

1. Tending to recede
2. Of an ancestral character, apparently suppressed in crossbred offspring in favour of the alternative character in the other parent, though it may be transmitted to later generations (genetics; also noun)
3. Of stress, tending to move toward the beginning of the word (linguistics)

recessˈively adverb

recessˈiveness noun

• shoeblack
• shoeblacks
• shoe brush
• shoe brushes
• shoe buckle
• shoe buckles
• shoed
• shoehorn
• shoehorned
• shoehorning
• stack system
• stack systems
• stack up
• stackyard
• stackyards
• stacte
• stactes
• stactometer
• stactometers
• stadda
• staddas
• staddle
• staddles
• schizont
• schizonts