business cycle

Other forms: business cycles

Definitions of business cycle
  1. noun
    recurring fluctuations in economic activity consisting of recession and recovery and growth and decline
    synonyms: trade cycle
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    type of:
    fluctuation, variation
    an instance of change; the rate or magnitude of change
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