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Depression vs Crackdown - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between depression and crackdown

is that depression is depression (area that is lower than its surroundings) while crackdown is abruptly stern measures or disciplinary action; increased enforcement.

depression

English

Noun

  • (lb) An area that is lower in topography than its surroundings.
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  • *:It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick. As one sat on the sward behind the elm, with the back turned on the rick and nothing in front but the tall elms and the oaks in the other hedge, it was quite easy to fancy it the verge of the prairie with the backwoods close by.
  • (lb) In psychotherapy and psychiatry, a state of mind producing serious, long-term lowering of enjoyment of life or inability to visualize a happy future.
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  • (lb) In psychotherapy and psychiatry, a period of unhappiness or low morale which lasts longer than several weeks and may include ideation of self-inflicted injury or suicide.
  • (lb) An area of lowered air pressure that generally brings moist weather, sometimes promoting hurricanes and tornadoes.
  • (lb) A period of major economic contraction.
  • Four consecutive quarters of negative, real GDP growth. See NBER.
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  • A lowering, in particular a reduction in a particular biological variable or the function of an organ, in contrast to elevation.

    • Related terms

    * depress * depressant * depressing * depressive

    See also

    * downturn * (National Bureau of Economic Research) ----

    crackdown

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Abruptly stern measures or disciplinary action; increased enforcement
  • * 2013 June 18, , " Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders," New York Times (retrieved 21 June 2013):
    • After a harsh police crackdown last week fueled anger and swelled protests, President Dilma Rousseff, a former guerrilla who was imprisoned under the dictatorship and has now become the target of pointed criticism herself, tried to appease dissenters by embracing their cause on Tuesday.