WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025
Great′ Depres′sion, 
  1. American Historythe economic crisis and period of low business activity in the U.S. and other countries, roughly beginning with the stock-market crash in October, 1929, and continuing through most of the 1930s.

'Great Depression' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Evans - Okie - depression - forgotten man - hard - melancholia - rent party - replay

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