price freeze
Inflation fighting measure
A price freeze is a government measure preventing prices from rising above a set level, typically during economic crises or wartime inflation.
Wages and rents may be frozen alongside prices: The administration imposed a price freeze on essential goods.
The term also applies to voluntary corporate decisions to hold prices steady.
- cost of livingPrice of basic necessities
- sticker shockDistress from unexpected expense
- supply and demandPrice-determining economic forces
- rent controlHousing price regulation
- cost-push inflationPrices rise from costlier production
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- pricingoverpricing, discounts, overcharge, markdowns, unit cost
- economic policymonetary policy, tax policy, fiscal discipline, fiscal stimulus, fiscal restraint
- inflationinflation, CPI, hyperinflation, cost-push inflation, stagflation
- price controlsrent control, interest cap, usury laws, minimum wage, wage controls
- delaysdelays, delay, delayed, postponement, postpone
- freeze wordsice, frost, cold, chill, glacier
price freezeprice increase
Rising cost of goods
decontrol · hyperinflation · price volatility · inflation · price surge
price freezefree market
Commerce without state intervention
laissez-faire · deregulation · market economy · price competition · competitive pricing
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