0 a time when there is less economic activity, or when prices or values of something are falling or low:
1 to use waste material or old or used objects to make a product of lower value than the original material or object:
This real estate downcycle differs from that of the early 1990s.
Although this upturn in the industry appears to be a long cycle, you always have to worry about when the downcycle comes, what are you doing to do.
Analysts say operating losses could total $3 billion in the present downcycle.
When all those new oil fields are on-stream, the downcycle will take hold.
This could well be signalling the end of the sharp equity downcycle and perhaps in September and October we might start to see some inflows.
Downcycling (such as using ground up rubber tyres in rubberized asphalt and other construction materials) is desirable if there is no other option.
If you downcycle, you make products of a lower grade from a recycled source, such as carpet pads from tyres.
PET usually gets “downcycled” into lower-grade fibres, but it’s now possible to make it into new bottles.
