ECONOMIC POLICY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does economic policy mean? 

• ECONOMIC POLICY (noun)
  The noun ECONOMIC POLICY has 1 sense:

1. a government policy for maintaining economic growth and tax revenues

  Familiarity information: ECONOMIC POLICY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ECONOMIC POLICY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A government policy for maintaining economic growth and tax revenues

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("economic policy" is a kind of...):

policy (a line of argument rationalizing the course of action of a government)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "economic policy"):

fiscal policy (a government policy for dealing with the budget (especially with taxation and borrowing))

New Deal (the economic policy of F. D. Roosevelt)

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

perestroika (an economic policy adopted in the former Soviet Union; intended to increase automation and labor efficiency but it led eventually to the end of central planning in the Russian economy)

protectionism (the policy of imposing duties or quotas on imports in order to protect home industries from overseas competition)