Meanings
present singular third person equilibrates · participle present equilibrating · participle past equilibrated · past equilibrated
- 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 92 more examples
[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 303The 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 - intransitiveTo balance, to be in a state of equilibrium.
Synonyms & antonyms
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Origin
- Late Latin*aequilībrō
- Englishequilibrate
From the participle stem of Late Latin *aequilībrō.
More words from Late Latin
Full word history & related roots →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
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