price support
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of price support
First recorded in 1945–50
Example Sentences
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Graham Kerr said he anticipates the government-led stockpile—announced earlier this month and called Project Vault—will prioritize metals that have opaque markets and need price support to underpin new projects.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026
To protect millions of livelihoods, the government shields key crops like wheat, rice and dairy with import duties and price support.
From BBC • Mar. 30, 2025
Trading volume in Alibaba, for example, is in decline and what little price support has been seen across the sector seems to have come mainly from short covering.
From Reuters • Sep. 29, 2022
The United States supports its dairy farmers with a complex price support system that is economically similar to Canada’s system of supply management.
From New York Times • Sep. 26, 2018
Three tools that we have developed—improved surplus disposal, improved price support laws, and the soil bank—are working to reduce price-depressing government stocks of farm products.
From State of the Union Address by Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David)
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