{"id":1933,"date":"2009-03-09T06:20:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-09T12:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2009\/03\/the-recession-dictionary\/"},"modified":"2009-03-09T05:18:08","modified_gmt":"2009-03-09T11:18:08","slug":"the-recession-dictionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2009\/03\/the-recession-dictionary\/","title":{"rendered":"The Recession Dictionary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This current economy is giving life to a handful of new words tied to the recession according to <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Business\/Economy\/Story?id=7027138&amp;page=2\" target=\"_blank\">this abcnews.com story<\/a>.\u00a0 Some of the words are making it into the online site of the major dictionaries.\u00a0 Thankfully they are not putting the words into the printed version\u2026yet.\u00a0 Does anyone still buy the hard copy?<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few of these new words entering the lexicon:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>decremental:<\/strong> <em>adjective<\/em> The act or process of decreasing or becoming gradually less; the amount lost by gradual diminution or waste.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Great Recession:<\/strong> <em>noun<\/em> The current recession, which began in December 2007.\u00a0 The length and severity of the current recession has led some in the media to dub it the &#8220;Great Recession,&#8221; a term that echoes the Great Depression of the 1930s.<\/p>\n<p><strong>recessionista:<\/strong> <em>noun<\/em> One who remains stylish during times of economic hardship; a woman who updates her wardrobe in a frugal manner.<\/p>\n<p><strong>staycation:<\/strong> <em>noun<\/em> A holiday spent at home, especially due to straitened financial circumstances.<\/p>\n<p><strong>zombie bank:<\/strong> <em>noun<\/em> A bank that has a negative net worth but continues to operate because of depositor&#8217;s insurance or other governmental intervention.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This current economy is giving life to a handful of new words tied to the recession according to this abcnews.com story.\u00a0 Some of the words are making it into the online site of the major dictionaries.\u00a0 Thankfully they are not putting the words into the printed version\u2026yet.\u00a0 Does anyone still buy the hard copy? Here are a few of these new words entering the lexicon: decremental: adjective The act or process of decreasing or becoming gradually less; the amount lost by gradual diminution or waste. Great Recession: noun The current recession, which began in December 2007.\u00a0 The length and severity of the current recession has led some in the media&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2009\/03\/the-recession-dictionary\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,49],"tags":[1242,248,1241,1240],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-vb","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1933"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1935,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933\/revisions\/1935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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