price controls

1. Measures, usually temporary, taken by governments to limit price rises in times of rapid inflation .

Example Sentences

Sucks to be Venezuelan: the country has run out of toilet paper, thanks to price controls straight out of a Woody Allen movie.

From The Daily Beast

The combination of price controls and currency controls spells trouble.

From The Daily Beast

Megan: So the danger of price controls is that you forfeit the opportunity to get a best fit.

From The Daily Beast

No, maybe, that's not quite fair: governments in Western Europe did use price controls to hold down the cost of health care.

From The Daily Beast

It's not whether price controls can work, but whether Americans will accept them.

From The Daily Beast

Our economy has been freed from governmental wage and price controls.

From Project Gutenberg

Under my program of phased decontrol, domestic crude oil price controls will end September 30, 1981.

From Project Gutenberg

Statutory price controls on food limited profits to reasonable ones according to the distance of the supply.

From Project Gutenberg