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QE

QE is the initialism of quantitative easing.

QE is the alternative form of QEW.

QE is the initialism of Queen Elizabeth Hospital.

Meaning of quantitative easing

Noun

quantitative easing (usually uncountable, plural quantitative easings)

  1. (usually) A monetary policy in which the central bank increases the money supply in the banking system, as by purchasing bonds from banks.
    • Summers believes that quantitative easing (printing a lot more yen and getting them circulated) is the most effective way of doing that.1999 September 18, “ANALYSIS: Professor Summers teaching Japan a Lesson”, in Asia Times

Meaning of QEW

Proper noun

QEW

  1. (Canada, initialism) The Queen Elizabeth Way, a heavily-traveled Canadian highway connecting the Peace Bridge at Buffalo, New York to Toronto, Ontario.

Questions about QE

What is QE the initialism of?
QE is the initialism of quantitative easing.

Words near QE in the dictionary

  1. QDII
  2. QDIIs
  3. QDR
  4. QDRO
  5. QDs
  6. QE
  7. QE2
  8. QEC
  9. QECs
  10. QED
  11. Qedarite

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Adapted from Wiktionary: QE (page history and authors); quantitative easing (page history and authors); QEW (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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