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Brief description: Cyclical unemployment is unemployment that occurs in conjunction with the business cycle where there is insufficient demand to support full employment.

Detailed description: On the diagram you can see that the equilibrium in the economy (yU) is at a level of output below full employment (yF). There is therefore insufficient aggregate demand to achieve full employment.