Great Depression

English Proper noun Great Depression 1 en 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. en David Leonhardt Standard of Living Is in the Shadows as Election Issue The New York Times 2012-10-24 https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/24/us/politics/race-for-president-leaves-income-slump-in-shadows.html 0362-4331 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20221211083319/https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/24/us/politics/race-for-president-leaves-income-slump-in-shadows.html 11 December 2022 Translations economic collapse Arabic: ar الْكَسَاد الْعَظِيم Catalan: ca Gran Depressió f Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 大蕭條 Dàxiāotiáo Danish: da Depressionen c definite form, da Store Depression c, da depressionen i trediverne lit. the depression in the [19]30s. Finnish: fi suuri lama French: fr Grande Dépression f German: de Weltwirtschaftskrise f Greek: el Μεγάλη Ύφεση f Hindi: hi महामंदी f Hungarian: hu nagy gazdasági világválság Icelandic: is Kreppan mikla f Indonesian: id Depresi Besar Japanese: ja 世界恐慌 せかいきょうこう, sekaikyōkō, ja 大恐慌 だいきょうこう, daikyōkō Kazakh: kk Ұлы тоқырау Korean: ko 대공황(大恐慌) Polish: pl wielki kryzys m-in Portuguese: pt Grande Depressão f Russian: ru Вели́кая депре́ссия f Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: dsb kriza swětowego góspodaŕstwa Upper Sorbian: hsb swětowa hospodarska kriza Spanish: es Gran Depresión f Tagalog: tl Malawakang Depresyon Vietnamese: vi Đại khủng hoảng Welsh: cy Dirwasgiad Mawr m See also en Great Crash en Great Recession en Herbert Hoover Historical events History of the United States Poverty