re.ces.sion

recession的音标和读音：
DJ音标发音： [riˈseʃən]
KK音标发音： [rɪˈsɛʃən]

recession的词性：
n.（名词）

1. The act of withdrawing or going back.
后退：撤回或退回的行为

2. An extended decline in general business activity, typically three consecutive quarters of falling real gross national product.
衰退：经济活动普遍而持续地衰败，尤指三个连续季度的社会总产品净值的下降

3. The withdrawal in a line or file of participants in a ceremony, especially clerics and choir members after a church service.
退场：在某仪式中一部分参加者一列或一群地退出，尤指做完礼拜后牧师和唱诗班成员退场

recession的词源：

4. Latin recessi? recessi?n-
拉丁语 recessi? recessi?n-

5. from recessus [past participle of] rec?dere [to recede] * see recede
源自 recessus [] rec?dere的过去分词 [退后] *参见 recede