Depression
Depression noun - A long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment.
Economic crisis is a synonym for depression. In some cases you can use "Economic crisis" instead a noun "Depression".
Economic crisis
Economic crisis noun - A long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment.
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Synonyms for Economic crisis
Depression is a synonym for economic crisis. You can use "Depression" instead a noun phrase "Economic crisis".
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- The Great Depression and the global economic crisis aren't resolved by the USA or Nazi Germany.
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It is possible this decade may have ended politically in late 2008, which saw the start of the worst economic crisis since The Great Depression, followed two months later by the election of Barack Obama as President.
Source: Turn of the Millennium
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