great depression

English Thesaurus

1. the economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s (noun.state)

instance hypernym	:	depression, economic crisis, slump,
definition	:	a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment (noun.state)

2. a period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment (noun.time)

instance hypernym	:	age, historic period,
definition	:	an era of history having some distinctive feature (noun.time)