Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who advocates contraction of the currency, especially of the paper currency, of a country: the opposite of
inflationist .
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Examples
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MUKHERJEE: That there should not be, in the name of financial agreement (ph), it should not be too much contractionist policies in the grab of another form of protectionism.
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One cannot rule out the possibility that some adherent of the contractionist school will claim for critical philosophy the right to determine what constitutes a genuine discipline, encroachment on which is to be forbidden, and what does not.
Wittgenstein's Strategy Gildin, Hilail 1969
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Darling was a ruthless contractionist, now parading as an expansionist.
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The Great Depression of the 1930's was not due to the 'contractionist propensities' of the gold standard as alleged by John M. Keynes.
Safehaven 2008
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