quarter

(adjective)

Related to a three-month term, a quarter of a year.

Related Terms

Examples of quarter in the following topics:

  • The Business Cycle: Definition and Phases

    • The NBER identifies a recession as "a significant decline in economic activity spread across the economy, lasting more than a few months, normally visible in real GDP, real income, employment, industrial production. " This is significantly different from the commonly cited definition of a recession being signaled by two consecutive quarters of decline in real GDP.

  • Poverty and Inequality

    • In 1998, more than one-quarter of all African-Americans (26.1 percent) lived in poverty; though distressingly high, that figure did represent an improvement from 1979, when 31 percent of blacks were officially classified as poor, and it was the lowest poverty rate for this group since 1959.

  • "Black Monday" and the Long Bull Market

    • The new rules set also a higher threshold for halting all trading; during the fourth quarter of 1999, that would occur if there was at least a 1,050-point DJIA drop.

  • Few Sellers

    • As of the fourth quarter of 2008, Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile together controlled 89% of the U.S. cell phone market.

  • Global Impacts

    • In December 2007, the U.S. officially fell into an 18-month long recessionary period of negative GDP growth (over two consecutive quarters).

  • Difference Between Economic and Accounting Profit

    • Accounting profit is also limited in its time scope; generally, accounting profit only considers the costs and revenue of a single period of time, such as a fiscal quarter or year.

  • Money in the U.S. Economy

    • Coins come in various denominations based on the value of a dollar: the penny, which is worth one cent or one-hundredth of a dollar; the nickel, five cents; the dime, 10 cents; the quarter, 25 cents; the half dollar, 50 cents; and the dollar coin.

  • Evaluating the Recent United States Stimulus Package

    • The CBO estimated that, according to its model, 2.1 million jobs were saved in the last quarter of 2009, boosting the country's GDP by up to 3.5% and lowering the unemployment rate by up to 2.1%.

  • Dimensionalizing Immigration: Numbers of Immigrants around the World

    • About one quarter of those surveyed (23%, or 150 million adults) stated that they would choose to immigrate to the United States.

  • The Discount Rate

    • During the financial crisis, this spread was reduced to one-half of one percent on August 17, 2007, and was further reduced, to a quarter of 1 percent, on March 16, 2008.