後こう退たい

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後退する · noun or participle which takes 'suru'

Meanings

retreat; falling back; moving backwards

Physical or metaphorical backward movement: troops retreating, vehicles backing up, or a position being reversed. Antonym: 前進.

Antonyms: 前進

Used for economic downturns, fading trends, or a general loss of strength or influence.

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〈場ば所しょ〉から後こう退たいするto retreat from a place
軍ぐんは国こっ境きょうから後こう退たいした。
The army retreated from the border.
景けい気きが後こう退たいするfor the economy to go into recession
世せ界かい的てきに景けい気きが後こう退たいしている。
The global economy is going into recession.
後こう退たいを余よ儀ぎなくされるto be forced into retreat
強つよい抵てい抗こうを受うけて後こう退たいを余よ儀ぎなくされた。
Faced with fierce resistance, they were forced to retreat.

退たい却きゃく sense 1
退却 also means retreat but is used mainly in military contexts with a stronger sense of withdrawal under pressure, while 後退 is more general and can be physical or metaphorical.
衰すい退たいN1sense 2
衰退 focuses on gradual decline in strength or prosperity, whereas 後退 in this sense emphasizes a downturn or recession more broadly.
後あと戻もどりN1sense 1
後戻り is a more colloquial word for going back or backsliding, while 後退 is more formal and covers both literal and figurative retreat.
逆ぎゃく戻もどり
後退 refers to a physical or status retreat or backward movement, while 逆戻り emphasizes returning to a previous, often undesirable, state.

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後こう進しん
後退 is the general word for moving backward or retreating (also used figuratively, e.g. economic decline), while 後進 is used specifically for a vehicle reversing.
バックN2
後退 is the formal Japanese term for moving backward, while バック is the casual loanword commonly used for cars or people reversing.
退たい化かN2
後退 means a retreat or setback in progress, while 退化 implies an actual reversion to a lower or earlier evolutionary or developmental state.

前ぜん進しんN3sense 1
advance; progress; moving forward
進しん行こうN1
後退 means moving backward or retreating, the direct opposite of 進行's sense of forward movement.
突つき進すすむN1
後退する means to retreat or move backward, the opposite of 突き進む's forward, forceful advance.

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躍やく進しん
後退 means to fall back or regress, the opposite of 躍進's forward leap.
突とっ進しん
後退 means to retreat or move backward, the opposite direction of the forward charge described by 突進.
進すすむN4
進む describes forward progress, whereas 後退 describes regression or falling back.

交こう代たいN2
交代 is a homophone of 後退 but means 'shift' or 'turn/rotation' (as in taking turns), not retreat or decline.

Compound of 後 (behind, after) and 退 (retreat, withdraw). The reading is on'yomi.