compensatory spending

1. 1.

   spending money raised by borrowing; used by governments to stimulate their economy

   Synonymsdeficit spendingpump priming

   Broaderspending

Questions about compensatory spending

What does compensatory spending mean?

compensatory spending means "spending money raised by borrowing; used by governments to stimulate their economy".

What is another word for compensatory spending?

Close synonyms include deficit spending, pump priming. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is compensatory spending a common word?

compensatory spending is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.