economic recession

C18528
concept

An economic recession is a significant, widespread, and sustained decline in economic activity, typically marked by falling GDP, rising unemployment, reduced consumer spending, and lower business investment.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
economic recession canonical 2
short-term economic fluctuation 1

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: economic recession
Generated description
An economic recession is a significant, widespread, and sustained decline in economic activity, typically marked by falling GDP, rising unemployment, reduced consumer spending, and lower business investment.

Instances (3)

Instance Via concept surface
Recession of 1937–1938
early 1990s recession in the United States
Kitchin cycles short-term economic fluctuation