price support

1. 1.

   a government subsidy used to maintain prices at a certain level

   Broadersubsidy

Questions about price support

What does price support mean?

price support means "a government subsidy used to maintain prices at a certain level".

Is price support a common word?

price support 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.