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POPULATION SHIFT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does population shift mean?
• POPULATION SHIFT (noun)
The noun POPULATION SHIFT has 1 sense:
1. a change in the relative numbers of the different groups of individuals making up a population
Familiarity information: POPULATION SHIFT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A change in the relative numbers of the different groups of individuals making up a population
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Hypernyms ("population shift" is a kind of...):
shift; transformation; transmutation (a qualitative change)
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