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political price fixing

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.03 in modern English

Syllables
po-lit-i-cal price -fix-ing
IPA
39
Scrabble Score
20
Letters
6
Syllables
13
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A situation in which a group of political parties band together to take opposing sides of certain issues, but take the same side on other issues. If the parties are powerful enough, voters on the opposite side of the other issues are left without a viable voting option. Instead, they must either not vote, vote for a candidate of another political party that stands no chance of winning, or vote for one of the major political parties that most closely aligns with their beliefs.

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Usage

Inflected Forms

political price-fixing (alternative)

Questions

What does political price fixing mean?
A situation in which a group of political parties band together to take opposing sides of certain issues, but take the same side on other issues. If the parties are powerful enough, voters on the opposite side of the other issues are left without a viable voting option. Instead, they must either not vote, vote for a candidate of another political party that stands no chance of winning, or vote for one of the major political parties that most closely aligns with their beliefs.

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