"countercyclical" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From counter- + cyclical.",
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    {
      "form": "more countercyclical",
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    {
      "form": "most countercyclical",
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        "superlative"
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    }
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      "expansion": "countercyclical (comparative more countercyclical, superlative most countercyclical)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      "word": "contracyclical"
    },
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "acyclical"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
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    }
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  "senses": [
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      "glosses": [
        "Dampening the cyclical fluctuations due to the business cycle in an economy."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "cyclical",
          "cyclical"
        ],
        [
          "fluctuation",
          "fluctuation"
        ],
        [
          "business cycle",
          "business cycle"
        ],
        [
          "economy",
          "economy"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "public policy",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(public policy) Dampening the cyclical fluctuations due to the business cycle in an economy."
      ],
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        {
          "_dis1": "89 11",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "dampening cyclical fluctuation",
          "word": "vastasyklinen"
        }
      ]
    },
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            "Social sciences",
            "Sciences",
            "Society",
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The unemployment rate is countercyclical in the sense that it rises when economic growth is low and vice versa.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Moving in the direction opposite to that of the overall state of an economy."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "economics",
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(economics) Moving in the direction opposite to that of the overall state of an economy."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "economics",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "countercyclical"
}

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    {
      "word": "procyclical"
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From counter- + cyclical.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more countercyclical",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most countercyclical",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
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    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "contracyclical"
    },
    {
      "word": "acyclical"
    },
    {
      "word": "countercyclicality"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
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        "Dampening the cyclical fluctuations due to the business cycle in an economy."
      ],
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        [
          "cyclical",
          "cyclical"
        ],
        [
          "fluctuation",
          "fluctuation"
        ],
        [
          "business cycle",
          "business cycle"
        ],
        [
          "economy",
          "economy"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "public policy",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(public policy) Dampening the cyclical fluctuations due to the business cycle in an economy."
      ]
    },
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        "en:Economics"
      ],
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        {
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Moving in the direction opposite to that of the overall state of an economy."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "economics",
          "economics"
        ]
      ],
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        "(economics) Moving in the direction opposite to that of the overall state of an economy."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "economics",
        "sciences"
      ]
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  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "dampening cyclical fluctuation",
      "word": "vastasyklinen"
    }
  ],
  "word": "countercyclical"
}