Definitions for downturn
ˈdaʊnˌtɜrndown·turn

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1. downturn, downswingnoun

   a worsening of business or economic activity

   "the market took a downturn"

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1. downturnnoun

   A downward trend, or the beginnings of one; a decline.

   The downturn in the economy made it harder to find jobs.

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1. downturn

   In economics, a recession is a business cycle contraction when there is a general decline in economic activity. Recessions generally occur when there is a widespread drop in spending (an adverse demand shock). This may be triggered by various events, such as a financial crisis, an external trade shock, an adverse supply shock, the bursting of an economic bubble, or a large-scale anthropogenic or natural disaster (e.g. a pandemic). In the United States, a recession is defined as "a significant decline in economic activity spread across the market, lasting more than a few months, normally visible in real GDP, real income, employment, industrial production, and wholesale-retail sales." The European Union has adopted a similar definition. In the United Kingdom, a recession is defined as negative economic growth for two consecutive quarters.Governments usually respond to recessions by adopting expansionary macroeconomic policies, such as increasing money supply and decreasing interest rates or increasing government spending and decreasing taxation.

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1. downturn

   A downturn is a decline or decrease in economic, business, or industrial activity, often marked by significant decrease in sales, production, investment, employment rate or other economic indices. It is usually regarded as a part of the overall business cycle or economic cycle.

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1. • Worsening

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1. turndown

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of downturn in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of downturn in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of downturn in a Sentence

1. Li Ganjie:

   Since the second half of last year, our country's economic operations have seen changes, and in those changes there are concerns, with complications in the external environment and downward pressures getting more severe, the awareness of the importance of environmental protection has weakened in some regions, and momentum has slowed, with the economic downturn simplistically attributed to a vaguely understood idea of excessive environmental supervision.

2. Chief Executive Officer Bill Downe:

   We're not seeing increases in delinquencies yet, there's likely salary continuation among laid-off workers in the oil sector. There are many two-earner families. That sustains people in a downturn.

3. United States:

   The United States economy is still booming, while China is battling an unsettling downturn, no one should want a trade war, but China still needs the US more than the reverse.

4. Jerome Powell:

   If not contained and reversed, the downturn could further widen gaps in economic well-being that the long expansion had made some progress in closing.

5. Jerrold Lundquist:

   The way you survive a downturn is to hold product at the suppliers. You want to keep the supplier alive but at the same time not take all their product.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
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2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Downturn
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downturn
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5. ^ Usage in printed sources
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