wage-price spiral

noun [S] ECONOMICS

Definition

› a rise in prices that causes a rise in the amount that workers earn, which increases the cost of producing goods, making prices rise again: A sharp fall in the value of sterling could ignite a wage-price spiral.

(Definition of wage-price spiral noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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