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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The period of declining and lower economic activity in the worldwide economy from the late 1920s through the 1930s. In the United States, it began with the stock market crash in October 1929 and was characterized by a decline in business activity into 1933.
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- proper noun economics, business, finance A major economic collapse that lasted from 1929 to 1940 in the US and a similar period in many other countries.
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- noun the economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s
- noun a period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment
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Examples
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Couric used the term Great Depression, and Palin just danced around with some meaningless cliches.
Palin: Passage Of A Bailout Package Necessary in Order To Avert Possible Great Depression 2009
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But nobody disputes that the term Great Depression is a proper noun.
Salon 2009
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The term Great Depression was a perfect fit in the 1930s; nobody has coined a phrase to properly describe our current plight.
dispatch.com: RSS 2009
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If things were left on their own, we would already be seeing an economic collapse of a proportion, where the term Great Depression would take on a whole new meaning.
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This measure of state tax policy truly understates the state and local tax contribution to the tragedy we call the Great Depression, but I'm sure the reader will get the picture.
Blue Crab Boulevard 2009
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This measure of state tax policy truly understates their contribution to the tragedy we call the Great Depression, but I’m sure the reader will get the picture.
RETURN TO PROSPERITY Arthur B. Laffer 2010
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Like the mounting of Detroit Revealed, the creation of Rivera's murals in 1932-33 took place at the height of an economic and political crisis, namely the Great Depression.
Vince Carducci: Revealing Detroit Photographically Vince Carducci 2011
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Like the mounting of Detroit Revealed, the creation of Rivera's murals in 1932-33 took place at the height of an economic and political crisis, namely the Great Depression.
Vince Carducci: Revealing Detroit Photographically Vince Carducci 2011
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Like the mounting of Detroit Revealed, the creation of Rivera's murals in 1932-33 took place at the height of an economic and political crisis, namely the Great Depression.
Vince Carducci: Revealing Detroit Photographically Vince Carducci 2011
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In agricultural circles the so-called Great Depression started in 1924.
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