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Recapture of Recife
The Siege of Recife (Cerco do Recife) was the encirclement and capture of the Dutch-held port of Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, ending Dutch Brazil in 1654.
Recbio Technology (瑞科生物)
Recbio Technology (瑞科生物) is a Chinese vaccine company in Taizhou, Jiangsu, listed in Hong Kong in 2022, known for its recombinant nine-valent HPV vaccine REC603.
Reccared I
Reccared I (Recared, died 601), Visigothic king of Spain 586–601 and son of Leovigild, converted from Arianism to Catholicism c. 587–589, convoked the Third Council of Toledo in 589, and issued early anti-Jewish legislation.
Rece Davis
Rece Davis (William Laurece Davis, born 1965) is an ESPN host since 1995 and host of College GameDay since 2015, its third host; also hosts College Football Playoff, NBA Draft, and 2026 Wimbledon coverage.
Receipt
A receipt, also called a sales slip, is a printed or digital document recording a completed sale and serving as proof of purchase for returns, warranties, and expenses.
Receivables turnover
Receivables turnover is a financial ratio, computed as sales divided by average receivables, that measures how quickly credit customers pay, often expressed as days sales outstanding.
Received Pronunciation
Received Pronunciation (RP), also called the Queen's English or BBC English, is the prestige accent of southern British English, codified by Daniel Jones in 1926 and adopted by the BBC, now largely replaced by Standard Southern British English.
Receivership
Receivership, also called a receiver and manager, is an equitable remedy in which a court appoints a receiver to protect property from waste or mismanagement during litigation.
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkish president since 2014 and prime minister 2003–2014, founder of the AKP; his 2017 referendum replaced Turkey's parliamentary system with an executive presidency concentrated in his office.
Reception of international law in national legal systems (comparative models)
Reception of international law is the set of constitutional rules turning treaties and custom into domestically enforceable norms, comparing US self-execution, UK dualism, continental clauses, and mixed systems.
Reception theory
Reception theory (Rezeptionsästhetik), a literary-critical movement of the Constance School founded by Hans Robert Jauss and Wolfgang Iser in late-1960s West Germany, studies how readers' horizons of expectations shape textual meaning, distinct from Anglo-American reader-response criticism.
Receptionist
A receptionist is an office and administrative support worker who greets visitors, answers and routes calls, and schedules appointments at the front desk; healthcare employs 45% of the roughly 1 million US receptionists.
Recess appointment
Recess appointment: temporary U.S. presidential appointment under Article II, Section 2, Clause 3 made without Senate confirmation during a Senate recess, expiring at the next session's end; limited by NLRB v. Noel Canning (2014) to recesses of at least 10 days without pro forma sessions.
Recession
A recession, also called an economic recession, is a significant decline in economic activity across the economy lasting more than a few months, not merely two quarters of falling GDP.
Recession of 1860-1861
The recession of 1860-1861 was a period of economic distress in the United States, beginning with the financial shock of Lincoln's election and Southern secession.
Recession of 1887-1888
The Recession of 1887-1888 was a 13-month contraction in United States business activity, dated March 1887 to April 1888, with no banking panic and railroad earnings still growing.
Recession of 1899-1900
The Recession of 1899-1900 was a short, mild US downturn dated by the NBER from June 1899, with no banking panic or stock market crash.
Recession of 1902-1904
The Recession of 1902-1904 was a 23-month contraction in United States economic activity, dated by the NBER from September 1902 to August 1904 and marked by the 1903 "Rich Man's Panic."
Recession of 1913-1914
The Recession of 1913-1914 was a 23-month contraction of the US economy that began before World War I and was deepened by the 1914 financial crisis.
Recession of 1923-1924
The Recession of 1923-1924 was a 14-month contraction in United States business activity, from May 1923 to July 1924, that fell mainly on heavy industry rather than consumers.
Recession of 1926-1927
The Recession of 1926-1927 was a mild economic downturn in Germany, peaking in early 1926, with a related form in Britain, where the May 1926 general strike depressed employment.
Recession of 1937–1938
The Recession of 1937–1938 was a sharp American downturn within the recovery from the Great Depression, from May 1937 to June 1938, caused by tightened monetary and fiscal policy.
Recession of 1945
The Recession of 1945 was an eight-month US contraction, dated February to October 1945 by the NBER, driven by the dismantling of the wartime command economy rather than collapsing private demand.
Recession of 1949
The Recession of 1949 was the first United States recession after World War II, an 11-month downturn driven mainly by business inventory liquidation rather than falling consumer spending.
Recession of 1953
The Recession of 1953 was a mild US economic contraction from July 1953 into 1954, the first faced by the Eisenhower administration, driven by post-armistice defense spending cuts.
Recession of 1958
The Recession of 1958 was an eight-month US economic downturn from August 1957 to April 1958, the third postwar recession, driven chiefly by sharp inventory liquidation.
Recession of 1960-1961
The Recession of 1960-1961 was a 10-month contraction in the United States economy, dated by the NBER from April 1960 to February 1961, followed by a long expansion.
Recession of 1969-1970
The recession of 1969-1970 was a mild United States contraction from November 1969 to November 1970, caused by tight monetary policy against inflation, and marked by Penn Central's bankruptcy.
Recessionary gap
A recessionary gap, also called a contractionary gap, is the amount by which an economy's real GDP falls short of its potential output, implying unemployment and slack.
Recidivism
Recidivism, also called reoffending or repeat offense, is when a person previously involved in the criminal justice system offends again, measured by new arrests, convictions, or imprisonment.