| ANTIRECESSION | • antirecession adj. (Economics) Serving to counter a financial recession. • ANTIRECESSION adj. designed to counter recession. |
| DECOMPRESSION | • decompression n. The process of decompressing. • decompression n. The restoration to atmospheric pressure of a person who has spent time under higher pressure (such as a diver). • decompression n. A mode of operation of some internal combustion engines which reduces the engine’s compression ratio… |
| DISCOMMISSION | • discommission v. (Transitive) To deprive of a commission or trust. • DISCOMMISSION v. (Milton) to deprive of a commission. |
| DISPOSSESSION | • dispossession n. The act of dispossessing someone of something. • dispossession n. The casting out of an evil spirit that has possessed someone; exorcism. • DISPOSSESSION n. the act of dispossessing. |
| INTROGRESSION | • introgression n. (Genetics) The movement of a gene from one species to another. • INTROGRESSION n. the modification of species by the backcrossing of the hybrids with the parent species. |
| MISIMPRESSION | • misimpression n. An inaccurate or misleading impression. • MISIMPRESSION n. a mistaken impression. |
| NONAGGRESSION | • nonaggression n. An absence of aggression. • NONAGGRESSION n. lack of aggression. |
| NONPOSSESSION | • nonpossession n. (Uncountable) Lack of possession; not possessing something. • nonpossession n. (Countable) That which is not a possession; something not owned. • NONPOSSESSION n. something that is not a possession. |
| PHOTOEMISSION | • photoemission n. (Physics) the ejection of electrons from the surface of a solid by incident electromagnetic radiation. • PHOTOEMISSION n. the release of electrons from a usually solid material (as a metal) by means of energy supplied by incidence of radiation and esp. light. |
| POSTRECESSION | • postrecession adj. Occurring after a recession. • POSTRECESSION adj. following a recession. |
| PREPOSSESSION | • prepossession n. Preoccupation; having possession beforehand. • prepossession n. A preconceived opinion, or previous impression; bias, prejudice. • PREPOSSESSION n. a fixed conception likely to preclude objective judgment of anything seeming to be counter to it. |
| PRETERMISSION | • pretermission n. Omission; failure to do something. • pretermission n. Preterition; the act of passing over; paralipsis. • PRETERMISSION n. the act or an instance of pretermitting. |
| RECOMPRESSION | • recompression n. The act of recompressing; compression again. • RECOMPRESSION n. a repeated compression. |
| RETROGRESSION | • retrogression n. A deterioration or decline to a previous state. • retrogression n. (Biology) A return to a less complex condition. • RETROGRESSION n. the act of retrogressing. |
| SUBCOMMISSION | • subcommission n. A subdivision of a commission. • SUBCOMMISSION v. to give a subsidiary commission. |
| TRANSGRESSION | • transgression n. A violation of a law, duty or commandment. • transgression n. An act that goes beyond generally accepted boundaries. • transgression n. (Geology) A relative rise in sea level resulting in deposition of marine strata over terrestrial strata. |