pump priming
noun
: government investment expenditures designed to induce a self-sustaining expansion of economic activity
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Fiscal pump priming at those debt levels will further exacerbate price pressures.
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Gerard Baker, WSJ, 23 May 2022
Comparing this Ohio State team to 2002 and 2014, the larder seems full and the pumps primed.
—cleveland, 27 Dec. 2019
Indeed, even as the economy has recovered, broader trends such as wage stagnation and cost growth in housing and education have kept the populist pump primed.
—Samuel Hammond, National Review, 26 Sep. 2019
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Gerard Baker, WSJ, 23 May 2022
Comparing this Ohio State team to 2002 and 2014, the larder seems full and the pumps primed.
—cleveland, 27 Dec. 2019
Indeed, even as the economy has recovered, broader trends such as wage stagnation and cost growth in housing and education have kept the populist pump primed.
—Samuel Hammond, National Review, 26 Sep. 2019
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“Pump priming.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pump%20priming. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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