1. when you quit a hobby for an extended period of time

2. when you lose interest in a project or procrastinate to avoid finishing it
Aaron started fixing his truck, but now it's just sitting since he's at recess.
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A term for white people which refers to white people scientifically being "genetically recessive". This is why the "one drop rule" was created.
"Don't ever let these recessives make you feel like you're subhuman".
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the break given in the middle of the day to elementary school children. usually a time when children play on a playscape or just generally run around and have fun.
today, at recess, little susie kicked sand in my eyes, so i called her a stupid poopoo butt.
by freakbutt July 1, 2006
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Two successive quarterly declines in GDP
Ronald Reagan: Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.
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Fat rich people telling poor hungry people they need to lose weight.
recession
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The ultimate Disney animation show on. It has had beatiful character's such as Ms.Finster and Randall you both fornicated with Rhandelle.
"Haha I watched recess today, doesn't randall look like the sign interpreter?"
"Yeah let's name it Rhandelle."
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Recession is the decline in a country's gross domestic product (GDP), or negative real economic growth, for two or more successive quarters of a year. The term recession, however, has been utilized in recent decades by politicians to distort the economic outlook and reframe in more positive terms rather than have to address the looming economic depression.
Ralph: Dude, the feds just lowered interest rates and backed a takeover of a large investment bank after acknowledging that we might be in a recession.

Ted: This recession's been going on since Bush took over. How long until we call it an economic depression?
by Kate Sjostrand March 21, 2008
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