business cycle

1. 1.

   recurring fluctuations in economic activity consisting of recession and recovery and growth and decline

   Synonymstrade cycle

   Broadervariation

Questions about business cycle

What does business cycle mean?

business cycle means "recurring fluctuations in economic activity consisting of recession and recovery and growth and decline".

What is another word for business cycle?

Close synonyms include trade cycle. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is business cycle a common word?

business cycle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.