upward pressure

collocation in English

meaningsofupwardandpressure

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upward
adjective
uk
/ˈʌp.wəd/us
/ˈʌp.wɚd/
moving towards a higher position, level, ...
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pressure
noun
uk
/ˈpreʃ.ər/us
/ˈpreʃ.ɚ/
the force you produce when you ...
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(Definition ofupwardandpressurefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Thisupwardpressureon wages further influences the private sector through the labor market.
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Furthermore, the need for investors to earn a commercial return may putupwardpressureon prices.
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It also entailed excessive expenditure at a time of serious indebtedness and intensified theupwardpressureon rents.
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This is clearly placingupwardpressureon the numbers of adults and children qualifying for the disability grant.
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This will produce anupwardpressureon inflation.
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That will inevitably increase theupwardpressureon the pound.
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That will have a dramaticupwardpressureon prices.
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That implies anupwardpressureon our currency.
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The effect might well beupwardpressureon prices.
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These conditions have produced a constantupwardpressureon wages.
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It putsupwardpressureon birth rates through improved overall physical health which causes both earlier onset and higher levels of fertility in females.
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In response, consumers may become concerned that shortages will emerge, and might start to build up stocks, thereby puttingupwardpressureon demand.
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This creates anupwardpressureon the genome-wide mutation rate and an antagonism between physiological constraints on error correction efficiency and selection for load-reducing mechanisms.
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Within a general equilibrium framework, population growth should induce a downward pressure on the wages and anupwardpressureon agricultural output prices.
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It must dampen down overheating in the economy and reduceupwardpressureon sterling.
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It will exertupwardpressureon utility prices and downward pressure on investment.
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Interest rates need not rise, although there is much talk aboutupwardpressureon interest rates.
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This necessarily means growing,upwardpressureon costs, the most important being salaries and wages.
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There is therefore a real-terms,upwardpressureon the state pension over and above inflation.
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It has clearly contributed more than public borrowing toupwardpressureon real interest rates.
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There will, therefore, beupwardpressurethat will be difficult to control.
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Those are all working outside our economy and are tending to exert anupwardpressure.
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In today's circumstances, that would increase the presentupwardpressureon interest rates.
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Last night it stood at 274, and theupwardpressurewill soon be reasserted.
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