downward pressure

collocation in English

meaningsofdownwardandpressure

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downward
adjective
uk
/ˈdaʊn.wəd/us
/ˈdaʊn.wɚd/
moving towards a ...
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pressure
noun
uk
/ˈpreʃ.ər/us
/ˈpreʃ.ɚ/
the force you produce when you ...
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(Definition ofdownwardandpressurefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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As suggested by the literature on tax competition, mobility may cause adownwardpressureon tax revenues and lead to an ultimate downward pressure on public expenditures.
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Thisdownwardpressureon wages encourages some labour to search for employment elsewhere.
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Increased agricultural output will further result indownwardpressureon food prices.
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These are precisely the rules which have been subject todownwardpressure.
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As a result, unemployment of over 3 million exerted littledownwardpressureon inflation.
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By impinging significantly on precautionary savings, it putsdownwardpressureon the rates of return.
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In turn this increasesdownwardpressureon the real, which thus increases the level of debt.
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Thedownwardpressurewould not be there.
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There will be a generaldownwardpressure.
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Competition will ensuredownwardpressureon prices.
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To keepdownwardpressureon inflation.
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That will putdownwardpressureon uplifts.
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The use of the net benefit framework could introduce adownwardpressureon the price of new therapies.
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It reflects thedownwardpressure, the reserve army effect and the effect the increasing division of labor have on wages.
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Clearly a key factor has been thedownwardpressureon prices exerted by the dominant purchasers, the local authorities.
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Adownwardpressureimplies that there was something pressing back.
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First, what does he mean bydownwardpressureon manpower?
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We shall continue to maintain steadydownwardpressureon inflation.
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It continues thedownwardpressureon utility costs.
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Their objective is to maintaindownwardpressureon inflation.
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Downwardpressureon the drug bill is therapeutic.
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This competition is placing a significantdownwardpressureon prices.
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We are undoubtedly putting adownwardpressureon costs.
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