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Definition of Inelasticity

1. Noun. The lack of elasticity.

Definition of Inelasticity

1. n. Want of elasticity.

Definition of Inelasticity

1. Noun. The quality of being inflexible ¹

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Definition of Inelasticity

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Inelasticity

Literary usage of Inelasticity

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

1. The A B C of the Federal Reserve System by Edwin Walter Kemmerer (1920)
"CHAPTER III inelasticity or AMERICAN BANK ... old banking system, defects closely related to those of decentralization, were those of credit inelasticity. ..."

2. Bank Credit and Agriculture, Under the National and Federal Reserve Banking by Ivan Wright (1922)
"CHAPTER VI SEASONAL inelasticity AS INDICATED BY CALL LOAN INTEREST RATES AT THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE The call loan rates of the New York Stock Exchange ..."

3. Introduction to Economics by John Roscoe Turner (1919)
"Defects of the system. 9. Decentralization of banking. 10. inelasticity of credit, n. Distribution of banking facilities. 12. Banking and foreign trade. 13. ..."

4. The ABC of the Federal Reserve System: Why the Federal Reserve System was by Edwin Walter Kemmerer (1920)
"... were those of credit inelasticity. A very large part of the country's current business is carried on by means of funds borrowed from commercial banks. ..."

5. Principles of Banking: A Series of Selected Materials by Harold Glenn Moulton (1916)
"inelasticity OF CURRENCY FOR SEASONAL NEEDS' The autumn of each year makes more apparent the urgent necessity of some additional facility or means by which ..."

6. Principles of Money and Banking: A Series of Selected Materials, with by Harold Glenn Moulton (1916)
"inelasticity OF CURRENCY FOR SEASONAL NEEDS' The autumn of each year makes more apparent the urgent necessity of some additional facility ..."

7. Banking, by Major B. Foster by Major Bronson Foster, Alexander Hamilton Institute (U.S.) (1917)
"inelasticity.—Altho the aggregate amount of notes outstanding increased four times in the course of forty-five years, the increase had nothing to do with ..."

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