"price control" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: price controls [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} price control (plural price controls)
  1. A governmental restriction on the prices that can be charged for goods and services in a market. Wikipedia link: price control Related terms: price ceiling, price floor Translations (Translations): hintasääntely (Finnish), hintasäännöstely (Finnish), contrôle des prix [masculine] (French)

Inflected forms

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