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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
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.)
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