price surge
Sudden expense increase
A price surge is a rapid, significant increase in the cost of something—stocks, commodities, housing, or consumer goods.
The term implies speed and force, like a wave: The oil price surge caught markets off guard.
Unlike gradual inflation, a surge is sudden and often temporary, though its effects may linger.
- spikeSharp rise or point
- soarAscend to heights
- through the roofAt extreme levels
- inflationSustained price level increase
- cost of livingPrice of basic necessities
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- economyGDP, money, inflation, inflation rate, GNP
- ticketingticket sales, box office, ticket agent, ticket agents, ticket booth
- price changesmarkup, markdown, increase, decrease, rise
- price increasesrent hike, fare hike, tax hike, fee increase, premium increase
- surgesupsurge, power spike
- bull marketstocks, rally, gains, boom, highs
direction of price movement
price surgeprice collapse
Rapid value decline
price drop · market crash · fire sale · markdown · selloff
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