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What is "recessionary"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
recessionary
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As such it was badly out of touch with the recessionary mood of the Nineties.
▪ But in recessionary times, the number of unwanted cats has grown.
▪ However it, like others, is suffering in the current recessionary climate.
▪ Operating profits were strongly ahead at £71.6 million, despite recessionary conditions in a number of our major markets.
▪ Quite a feat in these recessionary times.
▪ The difficulty is that Reagan was an original, promoting an optimistic untested theory in a recessionary period.
▪ True, the men at City Hall admit, belts have had to be tightened since a recessionary squeeze in 1991.
Wiktionary
recessionary

a. Of or relating to a recession.

WordNet
recessionary

adj. of or pertaining to a recession [syn: recessive]

Usage examples of "recessionary".

CyberNet, a multimedia highway for trading and instantaneous communication throughout Southeast Asia, had the potential to lift Sato International out of its recessionary spiral and return it to profitability.

These recessionary days, the lavish excesses of Las Vegas-style bad taste had been replaced by the curious Japanese propensity to maladroitly appropriate icons of American pop culture.

Now that the American economy was in a recessionary spiral and inflation was soaring, Starik intended to present the scheme first to KGB Chairman Andropov and, if he approved it, to the secret Politburo Committee of Three that scrutinized intelligence operations.

A company that made filing cabinets had located in Ridgeway, and in recessionary times, the unemployment rate locally was an enviable 3.