The Great Depression

Definition: The Great Depression

The Great Depression

Noun

1. A time period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment.

Synonym: The Great Depression

Synonym: the Depression (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: The Great Depression

English words defined with "the Great Depression": basin ♦ FDR, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt ♦ Pitch farthing, President Franklin Roosevelt, President Roosevelt ♦ Roosevelt ♦ Sordes. (references)

Specialty definitions using "the Great Depression": Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 ♦ Black Thursday ♦ Tariff Act of 1930. (references)

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Modern Usage: The Great Depression

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	The Great Depression & the New Deal (1996)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: The Great Depression

Domain	Title
Books	Christmas After All: The Great Depression Diary of Minnie Swift, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1932 (Dear America) (reference) Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression (reference) Hillback to Boggy: A Family Struggles for Survival, During the Great Depression, in a Tent in the Hills of Oklahoma (reference) Bewilderment: A novel of the Great Depression (reference) Surviving the Great Depression of 1990: Protect Your Assets and Investments--And Come Out on Top (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Our Daily Bread & Other Films of the Great Depression (reference) The 20th Century: The 1930s: The Great Depression (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	The Great Depression [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: The Great Depression

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Perspective view from southwest. Photograph by Jet Lowe, summer 1990. (Reproduction Number: HAER ORE,6-NOBE,1-10) At 5,305 feet in length, the Coos Bay Bridge is the longest of the five Public Works Administration bridges built along the Oregon Coastal Highway during the Great Depression. Made of steel, the bridge incorporates many complex structural systems and technological innovations including cantilevers, trusses, and early examples of concrete arches. Motorists feel as though they are driving under a series of arches when they travel over the bridge.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Non-Fiction Usage: The Great Depression

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Qatar	With the Great Depression and the introduction of Japan's cultured-pearl industry, pearling in Qatar declined drastically. (references)
	Colombia	The economy slowed, and by 1998 GDP growth was only 0.6%. In 1999, the country fell into its first recession since the Great Depression. (references)
	Estonia	However, with nine to 14 politically divergent parties, Estonia experienced 20 different parliamentary governments between 1919 and 1933. The Great Depression spawned the growth of powerful, far-rightist parties which successfully pushed popular support in 1933 for a new constitution granting much stronger executive powers. (references)
Political Economy	Argentina	Protectionist barriers introduced by its main trading partners following the onset of the Great Depression in 1929 closed many of Argentina's most lucrative export markets and contributed to a serious economic decline in the country. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: The Great Depression

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Rush Limbaugh	The Democrats are already on record saying that we're in the midst of the steepest decline in the NASDAQ since the Great Depression, which, of course, is a flat-out lie.
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Speeches: The Great Depression

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
John F. Kennedy	1961-1963	Business bankruptcies have reached their highest level since the Great Depression.
Bill Clinton	1993-2001	To Franklin Roosevelt, to fight the failure and pain of the Great Depression, and to win our country's great struggle against fascism.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: The Great Depression

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
cause of the great depression	101
the great depression 1929	35
dmx the great depression	30
effects of the great depression	29
1930s the great depression	20
life during the great depression	19
the great depression and the new deal	17
essay on the great depression	12
information on the great depression	10
child of the great depression	7
the economics of the great depression	4
the great depression and world war ii	4
the great depression in europe	3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: The Great Depression

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-e-e-g-h-i-n-o-p-r-r-s-s-t-t"
	-4 letters: predestinators, stereographies.
	-5 letters: atherogeneses, atherogenesis, enteropathies, interrogatees, predesignates, predestinates, predestinator, redintegrates, stenographers, stenographies, stereographed, straighteners, teratogeneses, teratogenesis.
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