English Explanatory Dictionary

scissors crisis

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An economic crisis caused by price scissors, that is, an unfavourable divergence in the prices paid by a particular group or country for products that it needs as against the prices of the products that it produces.

Word forms

scissors crisis scissors crises
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