price control

1. 1.

   restriction on maximum prices that is established and maintained by the government (as during periods of war or inflation)

   Broadercontrol

Questions about price control

What does price control mean?

price control means "restriction on maximum prices that is established and maintained by the government (as during periods of war or inflation)".

Is price control a common word?

price control 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.