inflation vs recession

inflation

noun
  • A decline in the value of money. 

  • An extremely rapid expansion of the universe, theorized to have occurred very shortly after the Big Bang. 

  • An increase in the general level of prices or in the cost of living. 

  • An increase in the quantity of money, leading to a devaluation of existing money. 

  • Undue expansion or increase, as of academic grades. 

  • An act, instance of, or state of expansion or increase in size, especially by injection of a gas. 

recession

noun
  • A period of reduced economic activity 

  • A procedure in which an extraocular muscle is detached from the globe of the eye and reattached posteriorly. 

  • The act or an instance of receding or withdrawing. 

  • A period of low temperatures that causes a reduction in species; ice age. 

  • The ceremonial filing out of clergy and/or choir at the end of a church service. 

  • The act of ceding something back. 

How often have the words inflation and recession occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )