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adjective
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of or denoting a business or stock whose income, value, or earnings fluctuate widely according to variations in the economy or the cycle of the seasons: Selling Christmas decorations is a cyclical business.
noun
3.
Usually, cyclicals. stocks of cyclical companies.
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Cyclical
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So is aloof. Does it mean:
| at a distance, especially in feeling or interest; apart |
| characterized by verbosity or unnecessary repetition in expressing ideas; exceeding what is usual or natural |
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Example Sentences
- It is early days, but the commission thinks that such cyclical convergence is slowly happening.
- The labour market is weak, with continuing jobless claims at a cyclical high.
- Probably, though, the pick-up in growth is mainly cyclical.
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World English Dictionary
| cyclic or cyclical (ˈsaɪklɪk, ˈsɪklɪk, ˈsaɪklɪkəl, ˈsɪklɪkəl) | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | recurring or revolving in cycles |
| 2. | heterocyclic See also homocyclic (of an organic compound) containing a closed saturated or unsaturated ring of atoms |
| 3. | botany |
| a. arranged in whorls: cyclic petals | |
| b. having parts arranged in this way: cyclic flowers | |
| 4. | music of or relating to a musical form consisting of several movements sharing thematic material |
| 5. | geometry (of a polygon) having vertices that lie on a circle |
| 6. | (in generative grammar) denoting one of a set of transformational rules all of which must apply to a clause before any one of them applies to any clause in which the first clause is embedded |
| cyclical or cyclical | |
| —adj | |
| 'cyclically or cyclical | |
| —adv | |
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