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# quantitative easing

phrase (noun phrase; uncountable; short form QE)

«quantitative easing» in the English dictionary: in the primary school — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## In the primary school

Source: Mova's pupils' dictionary. Licence: [Elamur Cosmic License](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/LICENSE/). Reviewed: the dictionary the pupils of Mova's primary school read; its examples quote the lessons and public-domain tales. Ships with Mova.

### Meaning

1. (jargon, economics) when a country's central bank makes new money and uses it to buy bonds, so that there is more money in banks and loans are cheaper.
2. (euphemism) a softer, technical-sounding name for what critics call printing money.

### In the lessons

Used by central banks, economists and news reports to make a big, worrying step sound calm and technical; formal and jargon, all English-speaking countries. Critics say it hides the plain idea of printing money. Phrases: a round of quantitative easing, end quantitative easing.

### Examples

- The central bank announced a new round of quantitative easing.
- Critics say quantitative easing is just printing money with a fancy name.
- My dad explained quantitative easing as the bank making money out of thin air.
- Quantitative easing pushed interest rates down.
- In the economics class we read about quantitative easing after a crisis.
- Some people worry that quantitative easing makes prices rise.
- "QE again? Great, my savings are worth even less," moaned the man on the radio.

### Note

Uncountable: say "quantitative easing", not "a quantitative easing" (but "a round of quantitative easing"). It is not about easy sums or quantities in maths. It stands for the plain words "printing money"; in a maths problem it just means more money in the system.