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  • noun Plural form of multiplier.

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Examples

  • A study of the cumulative effect of job multipliers is mind-boggling.

    Money is a Coward 1978

  • Long-term multipliers show a more than two-fold decline since the 1980s.

    Economics Roundtable Institutional Economics 2010

  • So-called "multipliers" - the continued economic ripple effect of an initial expenditure - touted by consultants are often grossly exaggerated, the economists say.

    unknown title 2009

  • Those criteria give treatment priority to "multipliers" - those are front-line health-care workers, public health workers, firefighters, police and others with the skills to save others in a pandemic - essential service workers who contracted flu while on the job, and "caregivers" such as pregnant women and parents of young children.

    Dose.ca Celeb News 2009

  • Rarely do people and organizations function so well as "multipliers" -- those who raise others around them to new levels.

    Adobe Blogs 2009

  • Either way, I wouldn’t say they’re being overlooked in the multiplier discussion since the measurement of multipliers is an empirical matter. wrw Says:

    Matthew Yglesias » Permanent Income Hypothesis 2009

  • John Irons, an economist and chief researcher for the Economic Policy Institute, said the multipliers are a standard, broadly accepted tool used by the Federal Reserve, Wall Street analysts and others.

    Democrats Turn The Tables On GOP Messaging AP 2011

  • The administration's jobs estimate relied on some broad rules of thumb (otherwise known as multipliers), assuming, for example, that every one percent of GDP the government spends will result in a 1.6 percent increase in GDP and that every one percent increase in GDP equals about 1 million jobs saved or created.

    ProPublica: Will Stimulus Spending Create New Jobs? We May Never Know 2009

  • This puzzle is both easy and difficult, for it is a very simple matter to find one of the multipliers, which is 86.

    The Canterbury Puzzles And Other Curious Problems Henry Ernest Dudeney 1893

  • John Irons, an economist and chief researcher for the Economic Policy Institute, said the multipliers are a standard, broadly accepted tool used by the Federal Reserve, Wall Street analysts and others.

    Kansas City Star: Front Page 2011

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