Usually means: Opposes trends in economic cycles.
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  1. countercyclical: Merriam-Webster
  2. countercyclical: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. countercyclical: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Countercyclical, countercyclical: Wordnik
  5. countercyclical: Wiktionary
  6. countercyclical: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. countercyclical: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. countercyclical: Dictionary.com
  9. Countercyclical: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. countercyclical: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. countercyclical: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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Definitions from Wiktionary (countercyclical)

adjective:  (public policy) Dampening the cyclical fluctuations due to the business cycle in an economy.
adjective:  (economics) Moving in the direction opposite to that of the overall state of an economy.

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