midcycle

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adjective

Occurring in the middle of a cycle

OriginEnglish cycle ← Middle English cicle ← Late Latin cyclus →
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Meanings

adjectivemidcycle (not comparable)
  1. not comparableOccurring in the middle of a cycle

    They won in California, where Gavin Newsom’s Proposition 50, his midcycle redistricting to counter Texas, passed with, last I saw, 63.9 percent of the vote.

    2025 November 7, Ezra Klein, “Just How Bad Was Trump’s Very Bad Night?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC
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    Mike Thompson, managing director of global research at Thomson Financial, says he believes that the potential slowdown in earnings reflects a midcycle slowdown.

    2007 November 11, Paul J. Lim, “Is the Market Finally Waking Up?”, in New York Times

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*me
  2. Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-?
  3. Proto-Indo-European*médʰi
  4. Proto-Indo-European*médʰyos
  5. Proto-Germanic*midjaz
  6. Proto-West Germanic*midi
  7. Old Englishmidd
  8. Middle Englishmid
  9. Englishmid
  10. Englishmid-
  11. Late Latincyclus
  12. Middle Englishcicle
  13. Englishcycle
  14. Englishmidcycle

From mid- + cycle.

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APA

midcycle. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/midcycle

MLA

“midcycle.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/midcycle. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “midcycle,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/midcycle.

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