equilibrate

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/iːkwɪˈlɪbɹeɪt//iːˈkwɪlɪbɹeɪt/

verb

To balance, or bring into equilibrium.

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Meanings

verbequilibrate (third-person singular simple present equilibrates, present participle equilibrating, simple past and past participle equilibrated)

present singular third person equilibrates · participle present equilibrating · participle past equilibrated · past equilibrated

  1. transitiveTo balance, or bring into equilibrium.

    Their equilibrium level is due to both trend inflation and r#42;, the real neutral rate of interest that equilibrates the economy in the long run.

    2024, Lapo Bini, Lucrezia Reichlin and Giovanni Ricco, “A Hundred Years of Business Cycles and the Phillips Curve”, in CEPR Discussion Papers, number DP19552, CEPR, page 9
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    [Walras] was well aware of the indirect influences of the changes in the other prices, but he assumed that these influences were some equilibrating and some disequilibrating, so that up to a certain point they cancelled each other out; hence the prevailing effect war the stabilizing one of the ‘own’ price.

    2010, Giancarlo Gandolfo, Economic Dynamics, 4th edition, Springer, page 303

    The perfectly competitive new classical models that we analyzed in chapters 13 and 14 are examples of DSGE models in which wages and prices are perfectly flexible and equilibrate both the product and labor markets.

    2019, George Alogoskoufis, Dynamic Macroeconomics, MIT Press, page 449
  2. intransitiveTo balance, to be in a state of equilibrium.

Synonyms & antonyms

verbbring into balance or equilibrium

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Origin

  1. Late Latin*aequilībrō
  2. Englishequilibrate

From the participle stem of Late Latin *aequilībrō.

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Translations

Bulgarian уравновесявам
  • уравновесявам (uravnovesjavam)transitive
Chinese Mandarin (使)平衡
  • (使)平衡transitive
Finnish tasapainottaa
  • tasapainottaatransitive
Portuguese equilibrar
  • equilibrartransitive
Romanian echilibra
  • echilibratransitive
Spanish equilibrar, equilibrarse
  • equilibrartransitive
  • equilibrarseintransitive
  • hacer equilibriointransitive
Cite this entry
APA

equilibrate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/equilibrate

MLA

“equilibrate.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/equilibrate. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “equilibrate,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/equilibrate.

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