fluctuate

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We all know that rates fluctuate, and that the cost of money will be more expensive when they go back up.

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  1. intransitive verb To vary irregularly. See Synonyms at swing.
  2. intransitive verb To rise and fall in or as if in waves; undulate.
  3. transitive verb To cause to rise and fall or vary irregularly.

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  • Though Lord Nelson's mind could not be thus induced to fluctuate, and was decidedly for the immediate passage of the Sound, when the Great Belt appeared to be preferred—“Let us, then, go by the Great Belt!” said the hero. —  The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Vol. II
  • We all know that rates fluctuate, and that the cost of money will be more expensive when they go back up. —  QandO
  • The valuation of futures and options may fluctuate, and, as a result, clients may lose more than their original investment. —  Safehaven
  • In addition, levels of AQP9 expression fluctuate depending on the nutritional status of the subject and the circulating insulin levels. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • The market will fluctuate, and obviously yesterday is history and tomorrow is a mystery. —  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
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  1. Latin flūctuāre, flūctuāt-, from flūctus, a flowing, from past participle of fluere, to flow; see bhleu- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin fluctuatus, past participle of fluctuare (later Italian fluttuare = Spanish Portuguese fluctuar = Old French floter, flotter, F. flotter), waver, rise in waves, move to and fro, float, fluctuate, from fluctus, a flowing, a flow, a wave, billow, from fluere, past participle fluxus, orig. *fluctus, flow: see fluent. Cf. float, v.
 

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