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lock in a price (ex.: by writing a contract to sell future wheat, you lock in a price for your crop PyatKopeyek) | |||
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freeze prices (If the government or a company freeze things such as prices or wages, they state officially that they will not allow them to increase for a fixed period of time. [V n] They want the government to freeze prices... CCB Alexander Demidov) |