countercyclical

About 0.12 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Dampening the cyclical fluctuations due to the business cycle in an economy.
2. adjective Moving in the direction opposite to that of the overall state of an economy.

   The unemployment rate is countercyclical in the sense that it rises when economic growth is low and vice versa.

Similar words

counter-cyclical procyclical counterinflationary antirecession anti-inflationary antideflation counter-inflation antiboom anti-inflation inferior

Often followed by

policy fiscal policies monetary public measures and pattern spending

Word family

countercyclically