financial crisis

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Noun

financial crisis (plural financial crises)

1. A period of serious economic slowdown characterised by devaluing of financial institutions often due to reckless and unsustainable money lending.

Synonyms

• economic crisis

Translations

period of economic slowdown

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 金融危機／金融危机 (zh) (jīnróng wēijī), 金融危机 (zh) (jīnróng wēijī), 經濟危機／经济危机 (zh) (jīngjì wēijī), 经济危机 (zh) (jīngjì wēijī)

• Czech: finanční krize f
• Danish: finanskrise c
• Finnish: rahoituskriisi
• French: crise financière (fr) f
• German: Finanzkrise (de) f
• Italian: crisi finanziaria (it) f
• Japanese: 金融危機 (kin'yū kiki)
• Kazakh: қаржы дағдарысы (qarjy dağdarysy)
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• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Mongolian: санхүүгийн хямрал (sanxüügiin xjamral)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: finanskrise m or f

  Nynorsk: finanskrise f or m

• Persian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: фина́нсовый кри́зис m (finánsovyj krízis)
• Swedish: finanskris c
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

See also

• bank run
• bubble
• recession