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equilibrate en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /iːˈkwɪlɪbɹeɪt/
• /iːkwɪˈlɪbɹeɪt/
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Etymology

From the participle stem of Late Latin *aequilībrō.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To balance, or bring into equilibrium.
   • 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:
   • [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:
   • 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:
2. (intransitive) To balance, to be in a state of equilibrium.

Forms

Deriveds

reequilibrate · disequilibrate · equilibrative · preequilibrate

Relateds

equilibrium · equilibrize

Synonyms

equilibrize

Translations (8)

es equilibrar (transitive) · es hacer equilibrio (intransitive) · bg уравновесявам (transitive) · es equilibrarse (intransitive) · fi tasapainottaa (transitive) · ro echilibra (transitive) · pt equilibrar (transitive) · cmn （使）平衡 (transitive)