English
mancessionmancession
Blend of man + recession, coined during the financial crisis of 2007–2010.
A blend of man + recession
Proto-Germanic *mann- ‘human being, person, man’
Proto-West Germanic *mann ‘person’
Old English mann ‘human being, person, man’
Middle English man
English man
Latin cēdō ‘to go’
Latin recēdō ‘recede, retreat’
Latin recessiō ‘a going back, receding, recession’
English recession
The story
Blend of man + recession, coined during the financial crisis of 2007–2010.
Today it means
noun Excessively high male unemployment.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
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