Price Support

Definition: Price Support

Price Support

Noun

1. A government subsidy used to maintain prices at a certain level.

Specialty Definition: Price Support

Domain	Definition
Agriculture	Programs operated by USDA that are intended to raise farm prices when supply exceeds demand and prices are unacceptably low. Support usually is achieved through nonrecourse loans, payments, and purchases. Some commodities are designated in the law to receive mandatory support; others may be supported at the discretion of USDA. Over time, policy changes have shifted toward farm income support and away from commodity price support. (references)
Economics	Subsidy or financial aid offered to specific growers, producers, or distributors, in accordance with governmental regulations to keep market prices from dropping below a certain minimum level. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: Price Support

Specialty definitions using "price support": Acreage allotment, Additional peanuts, Agricultural Act of 1954, Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 ♦ Basic commodities ♦ Commodity distribution, Consumer subsidy equivalent, Cross compliance ♦ Dairy and Tobacco Adjustment Act of 1983, Dairy Price Support Program, Domestic price, DPSP ♦ Flue-cured tobacco, Forfeiture penalty ♦ Income support ♦ Loan forfeiture ♦ National Wool Act of 1954, No net cost, No Net Cost Tobacco Act of 1982, Nonbasic commodities, Northern Europe cotton price ♦ Peanut poundage quota, Peanut price support program, Poundage quota, Program crops ♦ Section 22, Sign-up period, Steagall Amendment of 1941, Sugar price support program ♦ Tobacco Price Support Program, Two-tiered pricing. (references)

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Modern Usage: Price Support

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	What Farm Price Support Means to You (1962)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Price Support

Domain	Title
Books	Peanut price support program : hearing before the Subcommittee on Specialty Crops and Natural Resources of the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, first session, March 10, 1993 (reference) Review of fiscal year 1994 budget proposal to eliminate the honey price support program : hearing before the Subcommittee on Specialty Crops and Natural Resources of the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, first (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Price Support

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Switzerland	Milk price support is one of the main ways that farmers are assisted, and while milk prices were lowered modestly in 1999, they remain significantly higher than EU prices. (references)
	Finland	The reduction in price support brings the EU prices closer to the world prices, and the need for export subsidies decrease. (references)
	Finland	The shift in the emphasis of the support measures from price support to direct payments follows the trend started by the reform of 1992. The objective is to prevent oversupplies, which are very costly. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Expression: Price Support

Expression using "price support": price support policy. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Price Support

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Price Support

Language		Translations for "price support"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏سياسة دعم الأسعار. (various references)

Danish		destillation,der er blevet benævnt udnyttelsesgaranti (special price support guarantee for long-term storage contract holders). (various references)

Dutch		distillatie in het kader van de honoreringsgarantie (special price support guarantee for long-term storage contract holders). (various references)

Finnish		tukipalkkio (subsidy). (various references)

French		politique de soutien des prix (price support policy), distillation de garantie de bonne fin (special price support guarantee for long-term storage contract holders). (various references)

German		preisstützung, subvention (grant, subsidy, subvention). (various references)

Greek		απόσταξη "εγγύησης αισίου πέρατος". (various references)

Italian		distillazione di garanzia di buon fine (special price support guarantee for long-term storage contract holders). (various references)

Pig Latin		icepray upportsay

Portuguese		destilação "garantia de execução". (various references)

Spanish		mantenimiento de los precios. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Price Support

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-i-o-p-p-p-r-r-s-t-u"
	-3 letters: courtiers, croupiers, croupiest, outprices, prescript, scripture, stroppier, superport, supporter.
	-4 letters: citreous, corrupts, couriers, courters, courtier, croppers, croppies, croupier, cruppers, crustier, cuppiest, cuprites, outcries, outprice, pictures, piecrust, pierrots, posturer, precious, procures, prospect, purports, recruits, rescript, resprout, roupiest, scripter, sportier, sprucier, stripper, stropper, supercop, superior, superpro, trippers, troupers.
	-5 letters: cirrose, cirrous, citrous, copiers, coppers, copters.
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