Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to a cycle; cyclic.
- In botany: Rolled up circularly, as many embryos.
- Arranged in cycles or whorls; verticillate.
- In zoö., recurrent in successive circles; serially circular; spiral; whorled.
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- adjective
recurring atregular intervals
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- adjective recurring in cycles
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Examples
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America's official unemployment rate remains stubbornly near 10%, the real unemployment rate is likely well north of 20% and neither the president nor any of the major presidential challengers appear to understand this essential truth: Our malaise is NOT simply a short term cyclical problem amenable to even more profligate Democratic stimulus or knee jerk Republican flat taxes.
Peter Navarro and Greg Autry: Why the Best Jobs Program Is Trade Reform
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America's official unemployment rate remains stubbornly near 10%, the real unemployment rate is likely well north of 20% and neither the president nor any of the major presidential challengers appear to understand this essential truth: Our malaise is NOT simply a short term cyclical problem amenable to even more profligate Democratic stimulus or knee jerk Republican flat taxes.
Peter Navarro and Greg Autry: Why the Best Jobs Program Is Trade Reform
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Some of the experts call it cyclical, others say it is structural, and there are those who attribute it to being a combination of the two.
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It is a concept that attempts to show whether government finances would be in balance if it weren't for short term cyclical factors like the current, protracted global economic slowdown.
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Probably my favorite Scott Sumner post is the one where he offered what I called a cyclical monetary theory, meaning that monetary theory is itself cyclical.
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"The recycling industry is what we call cyclical," Foss said.
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(LM) I too, have come to if not a belief in "cyclical" patterns, a belief at least in "the law of averages".
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(LM) I too, have come to if not a belief in "cyclical" patterns, a belief at least in "the law of averages".
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After all, the idea is to bring in cyclical labour.
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In Sydney, materials companies were leading a broad-based recovery in cyclical stocks after the previous session's punishing selloff.
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