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Definition: Price Increase |
Price IncreaseNoun1. Increase in price. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Business | In 1998, the local production covered 52.1% of total petrol sale and 60.2% of diesel oil sale. The reason for lower consumption is growing price that is effected by oil price increase and consumer tax increase. (references) | |
VAT (19%) is, therefore, calculated upon a price including transport fees plus all of the above taxes, which leads to a price increase of about 20%. There is a no-duty exception for biochemistry analyzers during the first 6 months of the year 2000. The high level of duty is a serious impediment to imports from the United States, especially for hematology analyzers, blood cell counters and composite reagent test kits, products that become less competitive than similar EU products, even if they are of better quality. (references) | ||
Economic History | Poland | In December 1970, disturbances and strikes in the port cities of Gdansk, Gdynia, and Szczecin, triggered by a price increase for essential consumer goods, reflected deep dissatisfaction with living and working conditions in the country. (references) |
Indonesia | The Government's implementation of a 30.5 percent average fuel price increase on June 16 caused YoY CPI inflation to surge in June 2001 to 12.11 percent, the highest level in two years. (references) | |
Israel | Some companies use low pricing during the introductory period to facilitate market penetration of a new product, followed by a price increase once market share and reputation are established. (references) | |
Human Rights | Indonesia | On June 17, two student activists in Jakarta were arrested and charged with inciting "chaos" following a violent demonstration in Jakarta against a fuel price increase. (references) |
Political Economy | Haiti | Episodes of sharp gourde depreciation in September and October, combined with the fuel price increase, resulted in high costs for import-dependent business enterprises, and prices for food and consumer goods remained high. (references) |
Haiti | Political instability, deficit financing, depreciation of the local currency (the gourde), and the world fuel price increase contributed to the country's severe economic problems. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Zimbabwe | On July 3 and 4, the ZCTU sponsored a national strike after the Government ignored its demands to curtail or eliminate a 70 percent fuel price increase implemented in June, or implement wage increases to offset the price increase. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Language | Translations for "price increase"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | prisstigningsbegraensning (moderate price increase). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | matiging vd prijsstijging (moderate price increase). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | modération de la hausse des prix (moderate price increase). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Preissteigerung. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | moderazione del rialzo dei prezzi (moderate price increase). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | icepray increaseay moderação dos preços (moderate price increase). (various references) повышение цен. (various references) moderación de los precios (moderate price increase). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-e-e-i-i-n-p-r-r-s" | |
-3 letters: prescience. | |
-4 letters: careeners, earpieces, errancies, esperance, increaser, parceners, peccaries, precisian, precrease, prescreen, recencies, reinspire, reserpine. | |
-5 letters: caperers, caprices, capsicin, careener, creasier, creepers, creepier, creepies, crispier, earpiece, epicenes, increase, inspirer, naperies, parcener, perisarc, piercers, pineries, piracies, piscinae, prairies, prancers, preciser, preeners, prerinse, presence, repiners, reprices, rescreen, ripeners, sapience, screener, seapiece, sincerer. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 72 69 63 65 49 6E 63 72 65 61 73 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01110010 01101001 01100011 01100101 00100000 01001001 01101110 01100011 01110010 01100101 01100001 01110011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P r i c e   I n c r e a s e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0072 0069 0063 0065 0049 006E 0063 0072 0065 0061 0073 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)508475697124380698471678571 |
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