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price support

American  

noun

  1. the maintenance of the price of a commodity, product, etc., especially by means of a public subsidy or government purchase of surpluses.


price support British  

noun

  1. government maintenance of specified price levels at a minimum above market equilibrium by subsidy or by purchase of the market surplus at the guaranteed levels

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of price support

First recorded in 1945–50

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Warmer-than-normal weather extending well into September maintains some price support, with significant near-term heat driving cooling demand.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 31, 2026

A backdrop of tight supplies in the U.S. provided further price support, with storage at Cushing, Oklahoma, the delivery point for U.S. crude futures, already at their lowest since July 2022.

From Reuters Sep. 29, 2023

Developers stayed away because the minimum price support being offered was not high enough.

From New York Times Sep. 8, 2023

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 Dwight D. (Dwight David) Eisenhower

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