Definition of Price floor

1. Noun. Floor below which prices are not allowed to fall. "The government used price supports to maintain the price floor"

Generic synonyms: Base, Floor

Lexicographical Neighbors of Price Floor

priapuses
priar
pribble
pribbles
price
price-controlled
price-earnings ratio
price-fixing
price-to-earnings ratio
price bracket
price competition
price control
price cut
price cutting
price fixing
price floor (current term)
price freeze
price gouging
price in
price increase
price index
price indices
price is right
price level
price list
price lists
price of admission
price of tea in China
price on one's head
price out of the market

Literary usage of Price floor

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Commodity Programs: Impact of Support Provisions on Selected Commodity Prices by Juliann M. Gerkins (1997)
"This suggests that the provisions worked as intended, and the loan rate did not act as a price floor for rice. While USDA officials generally agreed that ..."

2. The U. S. Sugar Program: Its Impact on Sweetener Users and Producers and How (1994)
"... a price floor for Sugar supplement the federal treasury. Since then, the United States has used various programs to protect the domestic sugar industry, ..."

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