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POPULATION SHIFT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does population shift mean? 

POPULATION SHIFT (noun)
  The noun POPULATION SHIFT has 1 sense:

1. a change in the relative numbers of the different groups of individuals making up a populationplay

  Familiarity information: POPULATION SHIFT used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


POPULATION SHIFT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A change in the relative numbers of the different groups of individuals making up a population

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("population shift" is a kind of...):

shift; transformation; transmutation (a qualitative change)


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