expansive
Expansionary measures often involve increases in benefits.
Fiscal policy is likely to be expansionary until the next general election.
According to this theory we would expect expansionary responses under leftwing governments, and retrenchment when conservative parties are in power.
He has presented an expansionary budget with more spending promises.
The bank's actions are having an expansionary effect on the economy.
NATO was seen as countering a threat from an expansionary Soviet empire.

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expansionary | Business English

expansionary
adjective
 ECONOMICSuk /ɪkˈspænʃənəri/ us /ɪkˈspænʃəˌneri/
used to describe a set of conditions during which something increases in size, number, or importance :
The economy has entered a fresh decline after a brief expansionary period.

Examples of expansionary

expansionary
Once in place, such expansionary systems were destined to face cutbacks in one way or another.
Government came under pressure to adopt expansionary measures and decided to relax both monetary and fiscal policy.
By the same token, politicians who choose restrictive fiscal and monetary policies over more expansionary alternatives are not necessarily defying the laws of political gravity.
The latter therefore became impervious to foreign threats and thus were encouraged in their expansionary ardour.
This occurs because the built-in benefit decreases are roughly offset by the expansionary benefit changes that are also included in the plan.
That is, whether a positive shock to demand (say, associated with an expansionary period) generates greater or lower productivity growth is not clear-cut.
The same also occurs when an expansionary monetary policy is accompanied by a fiscal contraction.
This implies that an expansionary fiscal contraction is more likely if the contraction is brought about by cuts in transfers.
Another strategy would be to classify a period that is both expansionary and contractionary as either a contraction or an expansion.
The net effect of the redistribution will then have an expansionary effect on aggregate private consumption.
It was to be denoted the expansionary fiscal contraction hypothesis.
Evidence of political manipulation would be a departure from the trends in an expansionary direction during the relevant pre-election periods.
These studies have not explicitly focused on expansionary fiscal contractions.
An expansionary period is the outcome if the fiscal deficit increases.
These expansionary policies in a strategic part of the real economy were coupled with large fiscal deficits.
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