Great Depression

English

Proper noun

the Great Depression

1. (economics, business, finance, historical) 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.
   • 2012 October 24, David Leonhardt, “Standard of Living Is in the Shadows as Election Issue”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     For the first time since the Great Depression, median family income has fallen substantially over an entire decade. Income grew slowly through most of the last decade, except at the top of the distribution, before falling sharply when the financial crisis began.

Translations

economic collapse

• Arabic: الْكَسَاد الْعَظِيم (al-kasād al-ʕaẓīm)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 大蕭條／大萧条 (zh) (Dàxiāotiáo)

• Danish: Depressionen c (definite form), Store Depression c, depressionen i trediverne (lit. the depression in the [19]30s).
• Finnish: suuri lama
• French: Grande Dépression f
• German: Weltwirtschaftskrise (de) f
• Greek: Μεγάλη Ύφεση (el) f (Megáli Ýfesi)
• Hungarian: nagy gazdasági világválság
• Icelandic: Kreppan mikla f
• Japanese: 世界恐慌 (ja) (せかいきょうこう, sekaikyōkō), 大恐慌 (ja) (だいきょうこう, daikyōkō)
• Kazakh: Ұлы тоқырау (Ūly toqyrau)
• Korean: 대공황(大恐慌) (daegonghwang)
• Polish: Wielki kryzys m
• Portuguese: Grande Depressão f
• Russian: Вели́кая депре́ссия f (Velíkaja depréssija)
• Spanish: Gran Depresión f
• Vietnamese: Đại khủng hoảng

See also

• Great Crash
• Great Recession