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countercyclic

countercyclic is the alternative form of countercyclical.

Meaning of countercyclical

Adjective

countercyclical (comparative more countercyclical, superlative most countercyclical)

  1. (public policy) Dampening the cyclical fluctuations due to the business cycle in an economy.
  2. Moving in the direction opposite to that of the overall state of an economy.
    • The unemployment rate is countercyclical in the sense that it rises when economic growth is low and vice versa.

Questions about countercyclic

What is countercyclic the alternative form of?
Countercyclic is the alternative form of countercyclical.

Words near countercyclic in the dictionary

  1. countercurrentwise
  2. countercurse
  3. countercurses
  4. countercurve
  5. countercurves
  6. countercyclic
  7. countercyclical
  8. countercyclicality
  9. countercyclically
  10. countercyclicity
  11. counterdance

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Adapted from Wiktionary: countercyclic (page history and authors); countercyclical (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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