Definition of "downturns" []

• Plural form of downturn. (noun)

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• "There are situations, like medical emergencies or short term downturns, where families don't have another alternative."
• "His economic adviser, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, yesterday told reporters that short-term downturns are best addressed by the Fed."
• "The isolation of a producing region allows him to focus on discrete amounts of textile-production data to show how that industry, and its various upturns and downturns, is determined more by regional economic linkages than by the vagaries of distant European markets and systems of extraction beyond the Coromandel coast."