recession (n.)

• abandonment
• alcove
• backsliding
• bay
• boom
• bust
• capitulation
• cession
• corner
• cove
• crisis
• decline
• depression
• dip
• downturn
• expansion
• growth
• inglenook
• lapse
• low
• niche
• nook
• peak
• peaking
• prosperity
• reaction
• recedence
• recess
• recidivism
• recovery
• reentry
• reflux
• regress
• regression
• relapse
• relinquishment
• renunciation
• retreat
• retroflexion
• retrogression
• return
• rollback
• setback
• slowdown
• slump
• stagnation
• surrender
• throwback
• upturn