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GREAT DEPRESSION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Instance hypernyms:
depression; economic crisis; slump (a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment
Synonyms:
Depression; Great Depression
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Instance hypernyms:
age; historic period (an era of history having some distinctive feature)
