Synonyms for Recess
rɪˈsɛs, ˈri sɛsre·cess

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1. recessadjective

   Remote, distant (in time or place).

   Thomas Salusbury: Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems: I should think it best in the subsequent discourses to begin to examine whether the Earth be esteemed immoveable, as it hath been till now believed by most men, or else moveable, as some ancient Philosophers held, and others of not very recesse times were of opinion;

   Synonyms:
   pause, vacation, break, day off

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1. recess

   Synonyms:
   cavity, nook, withdrawal, retirement, retreat, seclusion, privacy, vacation, holiday

   Antonyms:
   promontory, protrusion, projection, publicity, worktime

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1. deferral, recessnoun

   a state of abeyance or suspended business

   Synonyms:
   recess, corner, deferral, inlet, deferment, niche, recession, postponement, break, respite, time out

2. recess, recession, niche, cornernoun

   a small concavity

   Synonyms:
   nook, recessional, quoin, deferral, respite, corner, receding, recess, ceding back, break, time out, recession, ecological niche, inlet, street corner, niche, box, turning point

3. inlet, recessnoun

   an arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands)

   Synonyms:
   recess, corner, deferral, inlet, recession, niche, intake, break, respite, time out

4. recess, nichenoun

   an enclosure that is set back or indented

   Synonyms:
   recess, corner, ecological niche, deferral, inlet, recession, niche, break, respite, time out

5. respite, recess, break, time outverb

   a pause from doing something (as work)

   "we took a 10-minute break"; "he took time out to recuperate"

   Synonyms:
   prison-breaking, rest period, deferral, rest, recession, jailbreak, respite, relief, corner, interruption, rift, intermission, severance, niche, falling out, prisonbreak, suspension, recess, breakout, faulting, break of serve, inlet, geological fault, gap, break, good luck, breaking, disruption, reprieve, open frame, gaolbreak, abatement, hiatus, breach, happy chance, fault, pause, shift, fracture, time out, breakage, rupture

6. recessverb

   put into a recess

   "recess lights"

   Synonyms:
   break up, adjourn

7. recessverb

   make a recess in

   "recess the piece of wood"

   Synonyms:
   break up, adjourn

8. adjourn, recess, break upverb

   close at the end of a session

   "The court adjourned"

   Synonyms:
   fragmentise, fragmentize, decompose, collapse, interrupt, crash, retire, split up, pick, dismantle, break up, recess, part, crock up, sever, cut off, fragment, split, disperse, separate, disrupt, dissolve, crack, disassemble, break apart, calve, dissipate, scatter, break down, resolve, take apart, dispel, adjourn, break, crack up, withdraw

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1. • Abeyance
   • Body Of Water
   • Indent
   • Put
   • Sea

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1. recessnoun

   Synonyms:
   retreat, nook, corner, niche, place of retirement

2. recessnoun

   Synonyms:
   intermission, respite, remission of labor, suspension of business

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1. recessnoun

   Synonyms:
   retreat, withdrawal, retirement, intermission, alcove, niche, nook, retreat, seclusion, privacy

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1. List of paraphrases for "recess":

   break, holiday, playtime, suspension, adjournment, pause, vacation, 'clock, cavity, recreation, niche

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1. Kathleen Fitzpatrick -LRB- 10 -RRB-:

   I usually play basketball with the kids at recess, and I don’t really take it lightly, i play as hard as I can. I just picked up a ball, and said — it was a Friday afternoon — that if I make this shot we’ll have hot chocolate on Monday as a class … I just launched it and it went in.

2. Mitch McConnell:

   Due to the historic obstruction by Senate Democrats of the president’s nominees, and the goal of passing appropriations bills prior to the end of the fiscal year, the August recess has been canceled.Senators should expect to remain in session in August to pass legislation, including appropriations bills, and to make additional progress on the president’s nominees, i ’m damn glad.

3. Jen Wirt:

   I think recess is beneficial, i do n’t know about more recess, I do n’t know you need an excess of that. I think kids need to have mental health breaks. I think they need to have a break in their day to help their brains restart. I do n’t know that adding a requirement on teachers, an additional requirement on top of all the other requirements we have to meet, is going to be the most beneficial to our students and to our schools.

4. President Barack Obama on Friday:

   This is not something where we can build a wall to prevent. Mosquitoes don't go through customs, congress needs to get me a bill. It needs to get me a bill that has sufficient funds to do the job. They should not be going off on recess before this is done.

5. William Ruto:

   Kenya is known worldwide for her athletics prowess and this is why we recalled Parliament from recess to pass the anti-doping legislation because we want to run clean sports, anybody caught in any future doping scandal will be jailed for three years or fined 3 million Kenyan shilling ($29,721) because we want to get rid of crooked people misleading our athletes from our midst.