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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
A short business cycle of about 40 months, believed to be due to time lags in information movement affecting decision-making.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: business
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Antonyms: none provided
History
Identified in the 1920s by Joseph Kitchin.
