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PRICE SUPPORT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does price support mean?
• PRICE SUPPORT (noun)
The noun PRICE SUPPORT has 1 sense:
1. a government subsidy used to maintain prices at a certain level
Familiarity information: PRICE SUPPORT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A government subsidy used to maintain prices at a certain level
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("price support" is a kind of...):
subsidy (a grant paid by a government to an enterprise that benefits the public)
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