MEANING
A state in which opposing forces or interacting processes are not in balance.
Use it for
describing supply and demand that do not balance; analyzing a system undergoing adjustment; distinguishing imbalance from an established stable stateDescribes a system out of balance without treating adjustment as an already stable new equilibrium. Academic functions: Causation / Relationships.
Words that belong together
- market disequilibrium
- economic disequilibrium
- a state of disequilibrium
On the page
The model examines how market disequilibrium can produce further adjustment.
The analysis treats the imbalance as disequilibrium rather than assuming that it represents a new stable state.
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Word forms
- Base
- disequilibrium
Usage notes
Usually uncountable. Disequilibria is a specialist countable plural for distinct imbalances; avoid it when a simple mass use suffices. Register: technical. Commonness: uncommon (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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