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词汇 price control
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Definition of price control in English:

price control

noun
usually price controls
  • A government regulation establishing a maximum price to be charged for specified goods and services, especially during periods of war or inflation.

    (尤指战争或通货膨胀期间政府实行的)价格管制

    the recent surge in inflation has been fuelled by a relaxation of price controls in the past 12 months
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Pumping in more money while imposing direct price control and hoping thereby to stem inflation is very much like trying to cure a fever by holding down the mercury column in the thermometer.
    • Inevitably price control meant that state-owned companies lost money and, in the absence of state subsidies, a large chunk of the economy was bankrupted.
    • The shackles of price control and regulatory levies must be removed from us in favour of competition,’ Mr Mohan said.
    • A spokesman said: ‘Transco would not have agreed to the price control if it prevented it from meeting its legal obligations to run a safe gas network.’
    • Gittens here faults economists for dismissing the public's demands for price control as irrational, or as merely the expression of a vested interest.

Definition of price control in US English:

price control

nounprīs kənˈtrōl
  • A government regulation establishing a maximum price to be charged for specified goods and services, especially during periods of war or inflation.

    (尤指战争或通货膨胀期间政府实行的)价格管制

    the recent surge in inflation has been fueled by a relaxation of price controls in the past 12 months
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The shackles of price control and regulatory levies must be removed from us in favour of competition,’ Mr Mohan said.
    • Gittens here faults economists for dismissing the public's demands for price control as irrational, or as merely the expression of a vested interest.
    • Pumping in more money while imposing direct price control and hoping thereby to stem inflation is very much like trying to cure a fever by holding down the mercury column in the thermometer.
    • Inevitably price control meant that state-owned companies lost money and, in the absence of state subsidies, a large chunk of the economy was bankrupted.
    • A spokesman said: ‘Transco would not have agreed to the price control if it prevented it from meeting its legal obligations to run a safe gas network.’
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