Definition of contractionary in English:
contractionary
adjectivekənˈtrakʃ(ə)n(ə)rikənˈtrakSHəˌnerē
Causing or relating to the contraction of a country's economy.
he imposed a contractionary fiscal policy in the form of a tax surcharge
the contractionary effects of higher interest rates
Example sentencesExamples
- The ILO attributes the jobs crisis to the social effects of contractionary economic policies.
- New borrowing finances additional spending, but it also contributes to a buildup of debts and debt-service obligations that are contractionary.
- That pace may well be healthy enough to offset the contractionary forces of the tech downturn, falling exports, and rising layoffs.
- The shift in fiscal stance should have imparted a contractionary bias to the economy, yet over the last four years the economy has prospered.
- Elsewhere, Sumner points out that the Fed's policy of paying interest on reserves is contractionary.
- This is the inevitable by-product of implementing a contractionary fiscal policy in the midst of a serious recession.
- The report has even argued that the government should enhance capital expenditures "in order to counter-balance the contractionary effects of fiscal consolidation."
- For the last 3 years that member and every member on the Opposition side of the House have attacked me for running too contractionary a fiscal policy.
- The contractionary effects of the fiscal intervention may not yet have peaked.
- Government surpluses drain the private sector of net savings, a very contractionary policy!
- This means that such economies can consolidate their budgets without fully experiencing the associated contractionary effects.
- Almost half of the stimulus simply offsets the contractionary effect of cutbacks at the state level.
- Macfarlane sounded an alarm, warning that the global slump would have a "significant contractionary effect" on the Australian economy.
- Bernanke observed, "It is now rather widely accepted that Federal Reserve policy turned contractionary in 1928, in an attempt to curb stock market speculation."
- The IMF programs of stabilization based on fiscal austerity have also been too contractionary.
- If you believe in stimulus, all stimulus plans are eventually contractionary.
- First and foremost is the fact that the U.S. economy has enjoyed a prolonged expansion even though fiscal policy has been contractionary.
- Regressive distribution is also contractionary, because wealthy individuals spend proportionally less of their incomes.
- The papers show that Howe privately admitted that it would be seen as a "quite severely contractionary" budget.
- A brief recovery followed, and then the current recession began in mid-1998, characterized by an unusually long contractionary period.
Definition of contractionary in US English:
contractionary
adjectivekənˈtrakSHəˌnerē
Causing or relating to the contraction of a country's economy.
he imposed a contractionary fiscal policy in the form of a tax surcharge
the contractionary effects of higher interest rates
Example sentencesExamples
- The shift in fiscal stance should have imparted a contractionary bias to the economy, yet over the last four years the economy has prospered.
- For the last 3 years that member and every member on the Opposition side of the House have attacked me for running too contractionary a fiscal policy.
- The papers show that Howe privately admitted that it would be seen as a "quite severely contractionary" budget.
- Government surpluses drain the private sector of net savings, a very contractionary policy!
- The contractionary effects of the fiscal intervention may not yet have peaked.
- This means that such economies can consolidate their budgets without fully experiencing the associated contractionary effects.
- A brief recovery followed, and then the current recession began in mid-1998, characterized by an unusually long contractionary period.
- If you believe in stimulus, all stimulus plans are eventually contractionary.
- Almost half of the stimulus simply offsets the contractionary effect of cutbacks at the state level.
- The ILO attributes the jobs crisis to the social effects of contractionary economic policies.
- Macfarlane sounded an alarm, warning that the global slump would have a "significant contractionary effect" on the Australian economy.
- This is the inevitable by-product of implementing a contractionary fiscal policy in the midst of a serious recession.
- The IMF programs of stabilization based on fiscal austerity have also been too contractionary.
- New borrowing finances additional spending, but it also contributes to a buildup of debts and debt-service obligations that are contractionary.
- That pace may well be healthy enough to offset the contractionary forces of the tech downturn, falling exports, and rising layoffs.
- First and foremost is the fact that the U.S. economy has enjoyed a prolonged expansion even though fiscal policy has been contractionary.
- Bernanke observed, "It is now rather widely accepted that Federal Reserve policy turned contractionary in 1928, in an attempt to curb stock market speculation."
- Elsewhere, Sumner points out that the Fed's policy of paying interest on reserves is contractionary.
- The report has even argued that the government should enhance capital expenditures "in order to counter-balance the contractionary effects of fiscal consolidation."
- Regressive distribution is also contractionary, because wealthy individuals spend proportionally less of their incomes.