Advertisement

Advertisement

incomes policy

noun

  1. a government policy to curb inflation that relies on voluntary compliance rather than on mandatory wage, price, or profit controls.


incomes policy

noun

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Discover More

Word History and Origins

Origin of incomes policy1

First recorded in 1955–60
Discover More

Example Sentences

With prices rising far faster than incomes, policy makers are concerned borrowers are taking on ever-larger amounts of debt, leaving them vulnerable to an economic downturn.

From Reuters

Over the weekend, at our party’s AGM, we launched an incomes policy which would create the most significant changes to New Zealand’s welfare system in a generation.

In reality, untouched by middle-aged poetic melancholy or a national prices and incomes policy, I could at least look forward to a squint at someone's dog-eared copy of Lady Chatterley's Lover, and the Beatles' next LP.

This despite the fact that they could not deliver their members to agreed policies, and the third year of an incomes policy had collapsed.

Jenkins did it through incomes policy and credit controls.

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement


incomerincome statement