Adjective : Selling Christmas decorations is a cyclical business.    From Dictionary.com. 

Its fire-protection segment is driven largely by noncyclical demand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recession Puts Halfway Rule to the Test] Reference

Investment strategist Subodh Kumar favors noncyclical stocks in today's markets.    From Wordnik.com.  [MoneyMasters With Vahan Janjigian] Reference

Clorox's stock has benefited as investors have sought refuge in noncyclical shares.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clorox Investors Could Clean Up] Reference

The final noncyclical theory that merits consid - eration arose within the Marxist movement.    From Wordnik.com.  [DETERMINISM IN HISTORY] Reference

Alcohol is historically a noncyclical business, largely unaffected by economic downturns, Mr. Martin said.    From Wordnik.com.  [At Big Wine Maker, Times Are Good] Reference

The numerous determinist theories of historical de - velopment can be classified as cyclical or noncyclical.    From Wordnik.com.  [DETERMINISM IN HISTORY] Reference

"Now, there are noncyclical companies with strong cash flows where prices have gotten a little silly," she said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Managers Bemoan Loss of Easy Money] Reference

The principal objections to noncyclical determinist theories of history, like those to cyclical ones, are historical.    From Wordnik.com.  [DETERMINISM IN HISTORY] Reference

"Companies in noncyclical, defensive sectors with strong credit and good relationships with banks can still borrow," he says.    From Wordnik.com.  [M&A Went MIA and May Stay That Way] Reference

It may be, as Solomon Karmel suggests, that the U.S. is now in a noncyclical decline, and that this is what caused the collapse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters to the Editor] Reference

His reasoning: With the possibility of a recession, companies that sell to noncyclical industries like pharmaceuticals stand to fare well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Software] Reference

Buyout groups already have noted health care's noncyclical qualities and the nondiscretionary nature of spending on services such as care homes.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Flu Shot For Private Equity] Reference

In China, food and agricultural companies rose on expectations that their noncyclical nature may make them a haven for funds amid a weakening global economy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Regional Stocks End Mixed] Reference

That yield, along with the company's noncyclical nature, according to Mostrous, makes it a timely pick if rising interest rates continue to slow the economy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Go Global With This Finnish Paper Play] Reference

Pimco's Mr. Kiesel said he is looking at AA - and A-rated banks, as well as noncyclical sectors such as utilities, pipelines, health care and cable and telecom.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Rebalance' Time? No, Says Bond Side] Reference

Still, women's health products are noncyclical and many are hormone-based, leaving them less vulnerable to generic competition, which makes this niche well worth a look.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commerzbank's Conundrum] Reference

Deflation is an unprecedented, noncyclical problem, which is why interest rates at the Bank of England are at their lowest level not in five or 10 years but in more than 300.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters to the Editor] Reference

Second, the cyclical sectors of the economy, largely the goods sector, is not as important as it use to be and the noncyclical services sectors account for more of the economy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tyler's Tough Macro Test, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

He added that Fresenius Medical Care AG, a German health-care group, had also been a big winner for the fund, because of the noncyclical nature of its business and a recent U.S. acquisition that the market viewed favorably.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fund managers battered] Reference

Even in the United States, hundred-year-old industrial companies are on their deathbeds, not because of a cyclical downturn after an “SUV mania” but as a result of relentless and noncyclical phenomena (e.g., globalization, deunionization, a broken health-care system).    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters to the Editor] Reference

While Dolan considers the appellate-services business, which accounted for about 10% of 2007 revenue, to be noncyclical, or not dependent upon macroeconomic factors, both its mortgage-default operations and, to a large degree, its public-notice advertising revenue are countercyclical, booming during economic slowdowns.    From Wordnik.com.  [Newspaper Company Dolan Media Bucks Industry's Weak Trend] Reference

Dallas has small shares in noncyclical industries such as health, leisure and government.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eye on Williamson] Reference

Cadbury runs a global, noncyclical confectionary business that, if properly managed, should have a very high return on capital.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vitaliy Katsenelson Contrarian Edge] Reference

High-quality companies (noncyclical, high cash reserves, minimal financing needs): If you want quality, look no further than Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO).    From Wordnik.com.  [Fool.com Headlines] Reference

However, Dow 12,000 is within reach by year-end, Weisberg says, led by consumer stocks -- both discretionary and noncyclical -- as well as tech stocks.    From Wordnik.com.  [DailyFinance] Reference

Scafetta and colleagues wondered if these noncyclical fluctuations might not be driving variations in the Earth's atmospheric temperature on time scales longer than 11 years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ars Technica]

Many of these careers are inherently resistant to recessions and, where vulnerability exists, you can minimise your exposure by targeting employment in a noncyclical industry.    From Wordnik.com.  [silicon.com :] Reference

1 Do we live in an era of a statistically significant, non-accidental and noncyclical climate change?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blue planet in green shackles....] Reference

That's why they're called noncyclical.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 23, 2008] Reference

And they need to be noncyclical businesses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vitaliy N. Katsenelson: Set the Bar High] Reference

1) Do we live in an era of a statistically significant, nonaccidental and noncyclical climate change?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notable & Quotable] Reference

2) Hubbert contrasted the steady-state with the ‘transient’ state when ‘various components are undergoing noncyclical changes in magnitude, either of increase or decrease.’.    From Wordnik.com.  [Herman Daly Festschrift~ Herman Daly and the Steady State Economy] Reference

Trade Now), housing's new paradigm of noncyclical growth and ever-rising home prices in the early to mid 2000s, Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, the heroic home-run production of steroid-laced Major League Baseball players Barry Bonds and Mark McGwire, the uncompromising principles of New York Governor Elliott Spitzer, the morality of our politicians (e.g.    From Wordnik.com.  [GuruFocus Updates -] Reference