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BUSINESS CYCLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does business cycle mean?
• BUSINESS CYCLE (noun)
The noun BUSINESS CYCLE has 1 sense:
1. recurring fluctuations in economic activity consisting of recession and recovery and growth and decline
Familiarity information: BUSINESS CYCLE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Recurring fluctuations in economic activity consisting of recession and recovery and growth and decline
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Synonyms:
business cycle; trade cycle
Hypernyms ("business cycle" is a kind of...):
fluctuation; variation (an instance of change; the rate or magnitude of change)
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