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PRONUNCIATION OF JAWBONING

jawboning  [ˈdʒɔːbəʊnɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF JAWBONING

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WHAT DOES JAWBONING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Jawboning

"Jawboning" or "moral suasion" in economics and politics is an unofficial technique of public and private discussions and arm-twisting, which may work by the implicit threat of future government regulation. In America during the Democratic administrations of Presidents Kennedy and Johnson officials tried to deal with the mounting inflationary pressures by direct government influence or jawboning. Wage-price guideposts were established, and the power of the presidency was used to push businesses and labor into going along with these guideposts. The term attracted some derision and is often associated with the Biblical story, in Judges 15:15, of Samson slaying a thousand of his enemies using the jawbone of an ass. Alfred E. Kahn, an economic advisor to President Carter, was particularly known for his dislike of the method. The term jawboning has also been used to refer to Herbert Hoover's efforts to convince employers to keep wages high as prices fell during the Great Depression. While Hoover was successful in obtaining such agreements, they did little to alleviate unemployment. The term has been used more recently in other contexts. During the 2000 U.S.

Definition of jawboning in the English dictionary

The definition of jawboning in the dictionary is the act or an instance of trying to persuade or bring pressure to bear on someone by virtue of one's high office or position, esp in urging compliance with official policy.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH JAWBONING


browning
ˈbraʊnɪŋ
cloning
ˈkləʊnɪŋ
clowning
ˈklaʊnɪŋ
crowning
ˈkraʊnɪŋ
doning
ˈdəʊnɪŋ
droning
ˈdrəʊnɪŋ
drowning
ˈdraʊnɪŋ
frowning
ˈfraʊnɪŋ
groaning
ˈɡrəʊnɪŋ
intoning
ɪnˈtəʊnɪŋ
landowning
ˈlændˌəʊnɪŋ
loaning
ˈləʊnɪŋ
moaning
ˈməʊnɪŋ
tombstoning
ˈtuːmstəʊnɪŋ
zoning
ˈzəʊnɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE JAWBONING

jaw
jaw-dropping
jaw-droppingly
Jawan
Jawara
jawari
jawbation
jawbone
jawboner
jawbox
jawbreaker
jawbreaking
jawbreakingly
jawcrusher
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WORDS THAT END LIKE JAWBONING

air conditioning
air-conditioning
ballooning
blood poisoning
burgeoning
canyoning
cleaning
conditioning
couponing
cushioning
food poisoning
ironing
Liaoning
poisoning
positioning
questioning
rationing
reasoning
reckoning
seasoning
unquestioning

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about jawboning

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «JAWBONING»

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Macroeconomics for Today
Such policies include presidential jawboning, wageprice guidelines, and wage- price controls. Jawboning causing the short~run aggregate supply curve to shift leftward from SRA$1 to SRASZ; therefore, a new equilibrium is established at E3.
Irvin Tucker, 2012
2
The Simple Flute: From A to Z
"Very well," say the jawboning advocates. "But how do you get the shift in air speed and angle that generates a wide interval?" First, obsessed as we are with our tone and embouchure, we fail to see that often fingers, even one finger, are ...
Michel Debost, 2002
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Economics for Today
Such policies include presidential jawboning, wageprice guidelines, and wage- price controls. Jawboning causing the short~run aggregate supply curve to shift leftward from SRA$1 to SRASZ; therefore, a new equilibrium is established at E3.
Irvin Tucker, 2012
4
Rawls's Law of Peoples: A Realistic Utopia
Let's call criticism and condemnation of other countries that is not accompanied by significant threats “jawboning.” This term was first used, I believe, as a name for attempts by US officials to use speeches and publicity to limit inflationproducing ...
Rex Martin, David A. Reidy, 2008
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Federal Aid to the Disadvantaged: What Future for Chapter 1?
I will call these strategies jawboning, piggybacking, and bootstrapping. They correspond to relatively well-established strategies already in the Federal repertoire, so they do not require extensive strategy departures from existing practice.
Denis P. Doyle, Bruce S. Cooper, 1988
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Safire's Political Dictionary
Janus words See OVERSIGHT ; TABLE . jawboning The use of presidential admonition as a tool of INCOMES POLICY . “The jawbone method” was the phrase used by Walter Heller, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers in 1962, ...
William Safire, 2008
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America, Inc.: who Owns and Operates the United States
As already noted, President Nixon, at the very outset of his administration, made it clear — with immediate and calamitous consequences — that he opposed " jawboning." Eventually even some of Mr. Nixon's supporters in the media became ...
Morton Mintz, Jerry S. Cohen, 1971
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Political Foundations of Judicial Supremacy: The Presidency, ...
Jawboning, or moral suasion, is one of the tools often attributed to public officials for affecting economic actors, such as presidential rhetoric geared toward persuading corporate and labor leaders not to raise prices and wages in an inflationary ...
Keith E. Whittington, 2009
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The Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang
1979 New York Times (June 24) 1 : The Department of Energy has been jawboning oil companies into increasing their production and sales of gasoline. 1983 Morning Line (WKGN radio) (Mar. 23): Now the President's jawboning the banks ...
Grant Barrett, 2006
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Unfinished Business: Twenty Years of Socialist Review
Except for brief periods of economy-wide price controls, the government has relied on a series of "jawboning" techniques to keep the price of steel within reasonable limits. During most of the years since World War II there has been no other ...
Socialist Review Collective, 1991

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «JAWBONING»

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Gold and Silver Record Shorting :: The Market Oracle :: Financial …
They were constantly jawboning about ramping QE3 if necessary to arrest any material stock-market selloff. The Fed-fostered notion that it was ... «The Market Oracle, Jul 15»
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Record Gold/Silver Shorting - GoldSeek.com
They were constantly jawboning about ramping QE3 if necessary to arrest any material stock-market selloff. The Fed-fostered notion that it was ... «Gold Seek, Jul 15»
3
Ergon seeks 200MW of big solar, accelerates push into storage
... some preferential financing support and some political jawboning – is about to take off in Australia, in large arrays and not just on rooftops. «RenewEconomy, Jul 15»
4
Mr Rainbow shoves foot in dollar mouth - MacroBusiness
... citing tools Canada laid out during the financial crisis such as quantitative easing. We deserve everything we get with jawboning like this. «MacroBusiness, Jul 15»
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Forex technical analysis: AUDUSD finds sellers at the 200 hour MA
Stevens has been successful (so far) in jawboning the currency lower). The 0.7500 level was an old floor. Now it is a ceiling. But with the 200 ... «ForexLive, Jul 15»
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FTSE calm on Greece vote, financials and property rise
Most Greece MPs voted in favour of the deal, despite many angrily jawboning against it. Wall St and Asia were down, but European bourses ... «Interactive Investor, Jul 15»
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Markets Live: Aussie crunched
2 years of Jawboning by Glen and a five minute speech from the US is all it takes to get the dollar down.. I bet Glenn feels like he is just pissing ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 15»
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The China Syndrome
... to reduce downward price pressure, curbing speculative IPO's and good old fashion "Let's Not Panic" jawboning will not restore confidence. «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
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The American Stake in Myanmar and Sri Lanka
American policy towards these two countries – jawboning, sanctions manipulation, and the promise of better future relations – has been useful, ... «The Diplomat, Jul 15»
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Winter wheat coming off fields, battered but not bad
Their complaining to Congress brought out the jawboning in lawmakers. Maybe it worked. Miller said a rail companies spent a lot recently ... «The Capital Journal, Jul 15»

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