English Explanatory Dictionary

Great Depression

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  1. A major economic collapse characterized by mass unemployment and limited business activity that lasted from 1929 to 1940 in the US and a similar period in many other countries.

Word forms

Great Depression the Great Depression

Related words

Great Crash Great Recession
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