expansionary

adjective

ex·pan·sion·ary ik-ˈspan(t)-shə-ˌner-ē

: tending toward expansion

an expansionary economy

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But in a country with excessively high levels of consumption, like the modern United States, the same policy can be expansionary. —

Joseph Thorndike, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025 The 10-year Treasury note yield has been increasing in recent months as investors consider more expansionary fiscal policies that may come from Washington in 2025. —

Carlos Waters, CNBC, 21 Dec. 2024 And now 51 out of 54 readings since June 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic have been expansionary. —

Zev Fima, CNBC, 8 Dec. 2024 The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) made huge permanent cuts to corporate and business taxes while making temporary cuts to individual taxes to limit the bill’s expansionary effects on the deficit, which stands now at more than $36 trillion. —

Tobias Burns, The Hill, 4 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for expansionary