worldwide recession

collocation in English

meaningsofworldwideandrecession

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worldwide
adjective
adverb
uk
/ˌwɜːldˈwaɪd/us
/ˈwɝːld.waɪd/
existing or happening in all parts of ...
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recession
noun[C or U]
uk
/rɪˈseʃ.ən/us
/rɪˈseʃ.ən/
a period when the economy of a country is not successful and conditions for business ...
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(Definition ofworldwideandrecessionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Most of our present troubles stem from the over-cutting of interest rates that we went into because we were afraid of aworldwiderecession.
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He will know that among the difficulties facing them have been theworldwiderecessionand the problems in overseas markets.
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Investment and savings are the key to this country's recovery from the presentworldwiderecession.
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Clearly no one would expect levels of output achieved at the peak of the economic cycle to be matched during a period ofworldwiderecession.
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There has been aworldwiderecession—there is no argument about that.
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Despite the recentworldwiderecessionin air transport, passenger numbers are now increasing again.
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Theworldwiderecessionhas made it impossible to recover ground by raising our production.
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Does she not agree that there is a clear conflict of objectives here which is bound to become more acute as theworldwiderecessiondeepens?
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Theworldwiderecessionhas had its effect on shipbuilding, which is unprofitable throughout the world.
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Secondly, there has been the impact of theworldwiderecessionon the textile machinery market overseas as well as at home.
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What we are all suffering from is aworldwiderecession.
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Businesses were rightly concerned about their future as we entered aworldwiderecession.
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I think that there will certainly be some recovery from what is aworldwiderecession; that buyers will not refrain from buying indefinitely.
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But they have arrived at a time ofworldwiderecessionand the odds have been heavily against them.
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But one sometimes forgets some elementary things, such as that if there is aworldwiderecession(which there has been) demand drops.
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It is that we are facing the biggestworldwiderecessionin the steel industry that we have ever known.
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They come at the worst possible moment, tied up with theworldwiderecession.
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It was the two great oil price explosions in 1973–74 and 1979–80 which, on each occasion, sparked off worldwide inflation andworldwiderecession.
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Theworldwiderecessionhas compounded that problem in the sense that those firms do not have the resources to make investment in advanced capital equipment.
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