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price-cap

price-cap verb: to set or impose an upper limit (a price ceiling or maximum allowable price) on the cost of a good, service, or commodity.

Verb

price-cap (third-person singular simple present price-caps, present participle price-capping, simple past and past participle price-capped)

  1. (informal, transitive) To set or impose an upper limit (a price ceiling or maximum allowable price) on the cost of a good, service, or commodity.

Forms of price-cap

third-person singular presentprice-caps
present participleprice-capping
past participleprice-capped
pastprice-capped

Questions about price-cap

What does price-cap mean?
Price-cap means to set or impose an upper limit (a price ceiling or maximum allowable price) on the cost of a good, service, or commodity.
What part of speech is price-cap?
Price-cap is a verb.
What is the past tense of price-cap?
The past tense of price-cap is price-capped.

Words near price-cap in the dictionary

  1. Price's equation
  2. Price's groundnut
  3. Price's law
  4. Price's potato-bean
  5. Price's theorem
  6. price-cap
  7. price-capped
  8. price-capping
  9. price-caps
  10. price-conscious
  11. price-current

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