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agrarian scissors

agrarian scissors noun: the disparity between the prices of agricultural and industrial products.

Noun

agrarian scissors pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only, chiefly Hungary) The disparity between the prices of agricultural and industrial products.
    • For a time it looked as if even ideological protests against the ruling system had been discredited. But the traditional wounds of the country were still there, and they soon began to bleed again, partly because of the stopping of emigration to America, partly because of the “agrarian scissors”...1938, Oscar Jászi, “Feudal Agrarianism in Hungary”, in Foreign Affairs, volume 16
    • The price of wheat was down now to 7.76 gold francs per quintal, opening the “agrarian scissors” to the extraordinary angle of 70.4 per cent. […]1956, Carlile Aylmer Macartney, October Fifteenth: A History of Modern Hungary, 1929–1945, volume 1, page 118

Origin of agrarian scissors

Primarily a calque of Hungarian agrárolló. See price scissors, scissors crisis.

Questions about agrarian scissors

What does agrarian scissors mean?
Agrarian scissors means the disparity between the prices of agricultural and industrial products.
What part of speech is agrarian scissors?
Agrarian scissors is a noun.

Words near agrarian scissors in the dictionary

  1. agraphobia
  2. agraphon
  3. agrarian
  4. agrarian parties
  5. agrarian party
  6. agrarian scissors
  7. agrarianisation
  8. agrarianise
  9. agrarianism
  10. agrarianisms
  11. agrarianization

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