Definition of "cyclical" []

• Recurring at regular intervals (adjective)

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• "America's official unemployment rate remains stubbornly near 10%, the real unemployment rate is likely well north of 20% and neither the president nor any of the major presidential challengers appear to understand this essential truth: Our malaise is NOT simply a short term cyclical problem amenable to even more profligate Democratic stimulus or knee jerk Republican flat taxes."
• "Some of the experts call it cyclical, others say it is structural, and there are those who attribute it to being a combination of the two."
• "It is a concept that attempts to show whether government finances would be in balance if it weren't for short term cyclical factors like the current, protracted global economic slowdown."