seasonal adjustment

1. 1.

   a statistical adjustment made to accommodate predictable fluctuations as a function of the season of the year

   “seasonal adjustments for housing starts must be made in mid-winter”

   Broaderallowance

Questions about seasonal adjustment

What does seasonal adjustment mean?

seasonal adjustment means "a statistical adjustment made to accommodate predictable fluctuations as a function of the season of the year".

Is seasonal adjustment a common word?

seasonal adjustment 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.