Meaning of cycle In English

• 0 a bicycle

• 1 a group of events that happen in a particular order, one following the other, and are often repeated:

  • the life cycle of a moth

  • the washing machine's spin cycle

• 2 a group of plays, poems, songs, etc. written by one person and connected with each other by dealing with the same characters or ideas:

  • It's one in a cycle of plays that are being performed on successive evenings.

• 3 to ride a bicycle

• 4 short form ofbicycle

• 5 a complete set of events that repeat themselves regularly in the same order, or a regularly repeated period of time:

  • Some economists predict the business cycle will turn downward.

• 6 a group of events that happen in a particular order, one following the other, and often repeated:

  • Interest rates tend to move in cycles.

  • Spending quickly becomes a vicious cycle - the more you have the more you spend.

• 7 a pattern of successful periods followed by less successful periods that often happens in an industry, a market, a business, etc.:

  • Normally, the business has cycles, and every 10 years it peaks.

  • If you sell goods in a seasonal industry, then cycles of consumer demand are an important dimension of your environment.

  • boom-and-bust/market cycles Security prices tend to move up and down over various market cycles and logic says to invest when prices are low.

  • The company's markets had passed the bottom of the cycle and were slowly growing again.

• 8 a single successful period, period of failure, etc. that is part of a regular series:

  • a boom/down cycle The country is still in a boom cycle.

  • The market is still in its growth cycle.

  • a cycle of debt/poverty The Credit Union tries to wean borrowers off the cycle of debt by offering financial counseling and payment plans.

• 9 a regular period of time during which an activity, job, etc. is done:

  • a two-year/3-month/annual, etc. cycle

  • a budget/planning/sales cycle

  • product/product-development cycles They work to shorten product-development cycles and to boost manufacturing productivity.