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recess /rē-sesˈ or rēˈses/ noun- Part of a room formed by a receding of the wall
- A niche or alcove
- A secluded spot, a nook
- A hidden, inner or secret place (often in pl)
- A small indentation or depression
- A sinus
- Temporary cessation of business, esp the adjournment of a lawcourt, or of Parliament during a vacation
- A break or interval during a school day (N American)
- A holiday period during the academic year (N American)
- A going back or withdrawing
- Retirement (obsolete)
- Seclusion (obsolete)
transitive verb- To make a recess in
- To put into a recess
- To suspend temporarily (N American)
intransitive verb To adjourn ORIGIN: See recede recessedˈ adjective recession /ri-seshˈən/ noun - The act of receding
- Withdrawal
- The state of being set back
- Part of a wall, etc that recedes
- 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 - Tending to recede
- 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)
- Of stress, tending to move toward the beginning of the word (linguistics)
recessˈively adverb recessˈiveness noun recessed arch noun One arch within another |