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supply-side

[suh-plahy-sahyd]

adjective

Economics.
  1. of or relating to a theory that stresses the reduction of taxes, especially for those of higher income, as a means of encouraging business investment and growth and stabilizing the economy.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of supply-side1

First recorded in 1975–80
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Example Sentences

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But without also stymying the demand for drugs, none of these supply-side approaches will work — we know this from past mistakes.

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“Abundance” is the buzzword and book title for a technocratic theory of “supply-side liberalism” that seeks to clear away the red tape and interest-group NIMBYism standing in the way of government planners who want to expedite the delivery of public services — housing, high speed rail, etc.

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Perhaps it was supply-side economics that did the trick.

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In an analysis published in the Washington Post, Mark Zandi, the chief economist of Moody's Analytics, and Jim Parrott, a fellow at the Urban Institute, described the plan as “the most aggressive supply-side push since the national investment in housing that followed World War II.”

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But this diagnosis of the child-care market as a simple supply-side problem conflicts with how child-care experts see it.

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