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Recess   /rɪsˈɛs/  /rˈisɛs/   Listen
Recess

noun
1.
A state of abeyance or suspended business.  Synonym: deferral.
2.
A small concavity.  Synonyms: corner, niche, recession.
3.
An arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands).  Synonym: inlet.
4.
An enclosure that is set back or indented.  Synonym: niche.
5.
A pause from doing something (as work).  Synonyms: break, respite, time out.  "He took time out to recuperate"
verb
(past & past part. recessed; pres. part. recessing)
1.
Put into a recess.
2.
Make a recess in.
3.
Close at the end of a session.  Synonyms: adjourn, break up.



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"Recess" Quotes from Famous Books



... April 25.—Session resumed to-day after Easter Recess. As TENNYSON somewhere says, Session comes but Members linger. Not forty present when business commenced. "May as well go on." said the SPEAKER, whom everybody glad to see looking brisk and hearty after his ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, May 7, 1892 • Various

... granted during the recess of the Senate to the following persons, I now nominate them to the same offices respectively annexed to their names: Albert Gallatin, John Quincy Adams, and James A. Bayard to be jointly and severally envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to ...
— A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents - Section 1 (of 3) of Volume 10. • James D. Richardson

... herself in the recess close by "Anne's window," as it was called, and for a minute or two cried violently. It did her good. With those tears all the selfishness, anger, and pain flowed out of her heart, leaving it purer and more peaceful than it had been for a long time. ...
— Agatha's Husband - A Novel • Dinah Maria Craik (AKA: Dinah Maria Mulock)

... if anything, more might have been heard of the affair, for the Select Committee had risen for the Parliamentary recess, were it not that the directors, carrying out a detailed examination of their own into the circumstances brought to light again by the inquiry, had laid before them a recommendation by their chief officials on which, rightly or wrongly, wisely or unwisely, they decided to dispense with ...
— The Story of the Cambrian - A Biography of a Railway • C. P. Gasquoine

... them away, Dolorosus; I know the needs of Angelina, and I can answer instantly. Send the girl, for the present at least, to that school whose daily hours of session are the shortest, and whose recess-times and vacations are ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 4, No. 23, September, 1859 • Various


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