PRICE CONTROL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does price control mean? 

• PRICE CONTROL (noun)
  The noun PRICE CONTROL has 1 sense:

1. restriction on maximum prices that is established and maintained by the government (as during periods of war or inflation)

  Familiarity information: PRICE CONTROL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRICE CONTROL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Restriction on maximum prices that is established and maintained by the government (as during periods of war or inflation)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("price control" is a kind of...):

control (the economic policy of controlling or limiting or curbing prices or wages etc.)