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| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
| business cycle | |
| —n | |
| chiefly (US), (Canadian) Also called: trade cycle the recurrent fluctuation between boom and depression in the economic activity of a capitalist country | |
A period during which business activity reaches a low point, recovers, expands, reaches a high point, decreases to a new low point, and so on.