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
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
Developers stayed away because the minimum price support being offered was not high enough.
From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2023
Deutsche Bank said on Wednesday that the energy price support and tax cuts planned by Truss could cost almost 200 billion pounds, about half Britain's historic pandemic spending push.
From Reuters ● Sep. 7, 2022
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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