price support
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of price support
First recorded in 1945–50
Example Sentences
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“Quickly depleting gas inventories are leading to price support as inventories cannot go too low,” the analysts say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 20, 2026
Developers stayed away because the minimum price support being offered was not high enough.
From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2023
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 analysis showed a pattern of bitcoin price support, Griffin said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 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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