parity price

Cultural  

1. A price paid to American farmers that is designed to give them the same real income that they had between 1910 and 1914, a period selected because it was a time of agricultural prosperity.

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Example Sentences

Diesel prices, which the company increased in May, were 15% below international markets, while gasoline prices were more than 20% lower than the import parity price.

From Reuters • Jun. 14, 2022

At the old parity price of 85s. per ounce, these holdings are valued by the Bank at only �126,400,000�less than the Bank's 1931 gold holdings when England was forced off the gold standard.

From Time Magazine Archive

Farm price for wheat was 92.2�, parity price 111.4�.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then the House noisily pulled the biggest surprise of the 83rd Congress by voting down a continuation of rigid 90% of parity price supports on the basic crops.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hinted that the parity price program is obsolete�"at its best it treats the symptoms and not the cause"�but postponed discussion of the problem of parity "since it is now before the Congress."

From Time Magazine Archive