procyclical
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.04 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Magnifying the cyclical fluctuations of an economy.
Example Sentences
- "The employment rate is procyclical, when the economy is doing well more people are working, when it's not doing well, fewer people are working."
Etymology
Etymology tree English pro- Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁-redup. Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *kʷékʷlos Proto-Hellenic *kʷókʷlos Proto-Hellenic *kúklos Ancient Greek κύκλος (kúklos) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Hellenic *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós) Ancient Greek κυκλῐκός (kuklĭkós)bor. Classical Latin cyclicuslbor. Middle French cyclique French cycliquebor. ▲ Classical Latin cyclicusbor. English cyclic English -al English cyclical English procyclical From pro- + cyclical.
Inflected Forms
more procyclical (comparative)
most procyclical (superlative)