price support

price support
    n 1: a government subsidy used to maintain prices at a certain
         level
    

90 Moby Thesaurus words for "price support":
      TLC, aid, alimony, allotment, allowance, annuity, assistance,
      autarky, bimetallism, bounty, bread, care, daily bread,
      depletion allowance, dole, economic self-sufficiency,
      economic support, endowment, fair trade, fair-trade agreement,
      fair-trading, fellowship, financial assistance, flexible supports,
      free enterprise, free trade, governmentalism, grant, grant-in-aid,
      guaranteed annual income, help, keep, laissez-faire,
      laissez-faireism, line, livelihood, living, localism, maintenance,
      managed currency, managed prices, manna, meat, mothering,
      noninterference, nonintervention, nourishment, nullification,
      nurture, old-age insurance, party line, party principle,
      pecuniary aid, pension, planned economy, policy, polity, position,
      price controls, price supports, price-fixing, protection,
      protectionism, provision, public assistance, public policy,
      public welfare, pump-priming, relief, rent control,
      retirement benefits, rigid supports, scholarship, sectionalism,
      stipend, subsidization, subsidy, subsistence, subvention, support,
      sustainment, sustenance, sustentation, tax benefit,
      tender loving care, upkeep, valorization, welfare, welfare aid,
      welfare payments