price-cap

verb

To set or impose an upper limit (a price ceiling or maximum allowable price) on the cost of a good, service, or commodity.

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Meanings

verbprice-cap (third-person singular simple present price-caps, present participle price-capping, simple past and past participle price-capped)

present singular third person price-caps · participle present price-capping · participle past price-capped · past price-capped

  1. informaltransitiveTo set or impose an upper limit (a price ceiling or maximum allowable price) on the cost of a good, service, or commodity.
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