price freeze
noun[C]
ukusECONOMICS,COMMERCE
thesituationin whichprices, or thepriceof aparticularproduct, arefixedat aparticularleveland noincreasesareallowed:
A five-yearpricefreezeisdueto end nextmonthforcustomersof thegascompany.
Examplesofprice freeze
price freeze
From the onset of the war to the start of thepricefreeze, prices increased at a rate of 11.1 percent annually.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This amounted to apricefreeze, which is usually ineffective in halting inflation.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Moreover, thepricefreezewas maintained for too long, creating distortions and leading to shortages of a growing number of products.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This was settled and the six-monthpricefreezewas agreed.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The government's response was to issue apricefreeze.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.During the period from thepricefreezeto the end of price controls, prices rose at rate of 2.1 percent annually.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This prompted the government to increase export tariffs and to pressure retailers into onepricefreeze after another in a bid to stabilize prices, so far with little effect.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It might also be possible to ensure that the cost of any measures to offset the effects of apricefreezeon farmers was borne by member states.
From theCambridge English Corpus
If we impose an effectivepricefreezewe deal with profits in that way.
From the
Hansard archive
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It is astonishing how these dirty words such as "subsidies"and"pricefreeze" are coming back into the vocabulary again.
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