Synonyms for great depression
great depres·sion

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1. Great Depressionnoun

   the economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s

2. Depression, Great Depressionnoun

   a period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment

   Synonyms:
   depressive disorder, low, impression, economic crisis, imprint, slump, natural depression, clinical depression

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1. Mayor Ed Murray:

   We are involved in a homeless crisis. The like we have not seen since the Great Depression, no city in American can deal with this (by themselves).

2. General McChrystal:

   After World War II, we had just come out of the Great Depression, times were tough. But 16 million Americans served in the war, and a tremendous number of those people went somewhere else and had completely different experiences than what they were used to.

3. Stephen Mihm:

   When we think about the changes that the pandemic has brought in our lives in the past year, there's a tendency to view this as exceptional or unprecedented, where, in fact, there have been previous times where Americans have found themselves with an unexpected amount of time on their hands, the best analogy, really, is the Great Depression.

4. Barack Hussein Obama:

   It is something we were aware of in 2008 and we wanted to do more about, but the first thing was putting out a big fire to make sure we didn't have a great depression.

5. Mayor Bill de Blasio:

   This is going to be the greatest crisis domestically since the Great Depression, this is why we need a full-scale mobilization of the American military.