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soft markets

soft markets is the plural of soft market.

Meaning of soft market

Noun

soft market (plural soft markets)

  1. An economic environment in which insurers lower their prices.
    • Property-liability insurance markets have been characterized historically by “soft” markets, in which prices are stable or falling and coverage is readily available, followed by “hard” markets, in which prices rise rapidly and availability declines.2000, Scott Harrington, Patricia Danzon, “The Economics of Liability Insurance”, in Georges Dionne, editor, Handbook of Insurance, Springer Science+Business Media, →DOI, →ISBN, page 296

Questions about soft markets

What is soft markets the plural of?
Soft markets is the plural of soft market.

Words near soft markets in the dictionary

  1. soft loans
  2. soft luxury
  3. soft maple
  4. soft maples
  5. soft market
  6. soft markets
  7. soft matte
  8. soft mattes
  9. soft media
  10. soft medias
  11. soft Mick

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