dovish
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[edit]dovish (comparative more dovish, superlative most dovish)
- Pertaining to a dove; dove-like.
- (figurative) Peaceful, conciliatory.
- Antonym: hawkish
- 2006 July 18, Jonathan Freedland, The Guardian, page 3:
- Doubtless an expression of frustration at the UN secretary general, who has long been too dovish for Bush administration tastes.
- 2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin, published 2013, page 210:
- Caillaux bypassed his Foreign Office in order to impose his own dovish agenda on the negotiations with Berlin […] .
- (economics) Disfavoring increasing interest rates; inclined against increasing interest rates.
- Antonym: hawkish
- The Federal Reserve's statement on recent inflation was interpreted as dovish by the market.
- 1985, Price Stability and Public Policy, page 143:
- A dovish policy keeps unemployment close to 6 percent and lets the price level swing more widely to absorb economic shocks.
- 2010, Jordi Galí, “The New-Keynesian Approach to Monetary Policy Analysis: Lessons and New Directions”, in edited by Volker Wieland, The Science and Practice of Monetary Policy Today, page 15:
- By appearing more dovish than the central bank actually is, the trade-off it faces between stabilization of inflation and stabilization fo the output gap is likely to worsen.
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[edit]like a dove
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peaceful, conciliatory, pacifist
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