call market
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of call market
First recorded in 1870–75
Example Sentences
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Inadequate medical supplies or prices well above costs are evidence of what economists call market failure.
From Washington Post
He admits that he can never call market tops and bottoms or predict how far prices will fluctuate.
Public broadcasting began as a response to what progressives nowadays call “market failure.”
From Washington Post
These three major planks of what many call “market fundamentalism” share the same essential flaw: they take old conservative ideas and dumb them down by stripping them of all subtlety and nuance, in the process perverting their meaning to something completely at odds with the traditions of principled conservatism.
From Salon
It is what economics textbooks call an externality, which in turn is one example of what they call "market failures".
From BBC
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