price support
noun
: artificial maintenance of prices (as of a raw material) at some predetermined level usually through government action
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After reaching a peak around $320 in July 2023, META spent four solid months bouncing between price support around $280 and retesting the July peak.
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David Keller, CNBC, 1 Aug. 2024
Washington still has a chance to live up to its concrete commitments on climate finance, sustainable development, food price support, and global governance reform.
—Bruce Jones, Foreign Affairs, 15 June 2022
To critics of large-scale commercial farming, the payments highlight a deeply flawed system of corporate subsidies, which last year included more than $30 billion in taxpayer money directed to the agriculture sector, much of it for crop insurance, commodity price support and disaster aid.
—Andrew Jacobs, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2024
This will only happen when regulatory certainty and price support mechanisms, backed by government, are in place.
—Jennifer Leigh Parker, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
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David Keller, CNBC, 1 Aug. 2024
Washington still has a chance to live up to its concrete commitments on climate finance, sustainable development, food price support, and global governance reform.
—Bruce Jones, Foreign Affairs, 15 June 2022
To critics of large-scale commercial farming, the payments highlight a deeply flawed system of corporate subsidies, which last year included more than $30 billion in taxpayer money directed to the agriculture sector, much of it for crop insurance, commodity price support and disaster aid.
—Andrew Jacobs, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2024
This will only happen when regulatory certainty and price support mechanisms, backed by government, are in place.
—Jennifer Leigh Parker, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
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“Price support.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/price%20support. Accessed 28 Sep. 2024.
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