cyclical variation

collocation in English

meaningsofcyclicalandvariation

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cyclical
adjective
uk
/ˈsɪk.lɪ.kəl/us
/ˈsɪk.lɪ.kəl/
Cyclical events happen in a particular order, one following the other, and are ...
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variation
noun
uk
/ˌveə.riˈeɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌver.iˈeɪ.ʃən/
a change in amount ...
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(Definition ofcyclicalandvariationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Statistical techniques are used to assess the effects of cyclical variations and hence to separate the broad trend of potential output.
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Productive potential is assumed to differ from actual output mainly because of cyclical variations in the intensity with which the resources of the economy are used.
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These moving averages will also remove anycyclicalvariation.
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The moving average value may therefore be supposed to give estimates of the combined effects of trend andcyclicalvariation.
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The quantitative benefits may be modest, however, because of the low degree ofcyclicalvariationin the natural rate.
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This industry lies at the very last link of the chain reaction and is particularly susceptible tocyclicalvariation.
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We need to prevent producers falling victim to thecyclicalvariationof the market.
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The figures relating to unemployment nearly every year go through a sort ofcyclicalvariation.
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We show how significant the nontrivial interactions between cyclical variations and seasonal ones were in the 16th- and 17th-century economies.
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The cyclical variations exhibited by deterministic models are totally predictable, and are due to cycles of nonlinear deterministic dynamic equations.
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The offset correlations are symmetric, implying that cyclical variations in risk and return are negatively related but coincident.
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That strategy said that the borrowing requirement would have to be corrected for cyclical variations.
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Statistical techniques are used to assess the effects of cyclical variations and hence to separate the broad trend of potential output.
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The second proposal is to even out the cyclical variations, great as they are, in ordering.
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Some local authorities have suffered in the past from cyclical variations in demand for the waste paper they have collected.
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Productive potential is assumed to differ from actual output mainly because of cyclical variations in the intensity with which the resources of the economy are used.
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