agrarian scissors
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.05 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
5
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The disparity between the prices of agricultural and industrial products.
Example Sentences
- "For a time it looked as if even ideological protests against the ruling system had been discredited. But the traditional wounds of the country were still there, and they soon began to bleed again, partly because of the stopping of emigration to America, partly because of the “agrarian scissors” which put the living standard of the people on a starvation level."
- "The price of wheat was down now to 7.76 gold francs per quintal, opening the “agrarian scissors” to the extraordinary angle of 70.4 per cent. […]"
- "The agrarian scissors were set at an angle of 59.4% as late as 1940, and the living standard was 33% to 64% lower than it had been in 1916."