economic crisis

English Thesaurus

1. a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment (noun.state)

hypernym	:	crisis,
definition	:	an unstable situation of extreme danger or difficulty (noun.state)

hypernym	:	economic condition,
definition	:	the condition of the economy (noun.state)

instance hyponym	:	great depression,
definition	:	the economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s (noun.state)

derivation	:	fall off, sink, slump,
definition	:	fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly (verb.change)

derivation	:	fall off, sink, slump,
definition	:	fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly (verb.change)