Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the quality of stimulating; tending to stimulate.
- noun That which stimulates; that which rouses into more vigorous action; a stimulant or incentive.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having the quality of stimulating.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having a
stimulating effect. - noun That which
stimulates ; astimulant .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective capable of arousing or accelerating physiological or psychological activity or response by a chemical agent
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Examples
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Compounding the long-term stimulative effect of higher confidence, the detailed nature of our tax system induces people, particularly at higher tax brackets, to do the kind of business-related spending that is most immediately stimulative.
Dr. Philip Neches: Let the Tax Cuts Expire Dr. Philip Neches 2010
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Compounding the long-term stimulative effect of higher confidence, the detailed nature of our tax system induces people, particularly at higher tax brackets, to do the kind of business-related spending that is most immediately stimulative.
Dr. Philip Neches: Let the Tax Cuts Expire Dr. Philip Neches 2010
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Or did you go through here and see these things as long-term stimulative?
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Now I will let any one of you all jump in here and answer this one, but how is something like that long-term stimulative?
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According to the CBO it should be short term stimulative, but in the longer term will slow down the economy.
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Why did the president decide to spend so much money on one particular thing that does not have any short-term stimulative effects (OFF-MIKE)?
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And if there's even a short-term stimulative gain from such benefits, it would likely help take some of the pain out of the current jobs crisis, which is fast becoming a crisis of long-term unemployment.
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And if there's even a short-term stimulative gain from such benefits, it would likely help take some of the pain out of the current jobs crisis, which is fast becoming a crisis of long-term unemployment.
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Prakken's firm estimates that the near-term stimulative provisions of the Obama program - infrastructure spending, the temporary payroll tax cuts and extended unemployment coverage - would create 1.3 million jobs in the first year and raise gross domestic product growth by 1.25 percentage points.
News - latimes.com 2011
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These short-term stimulative things ... pump up some money in the quarter where they occur. ...
Economist's View 2010
kewpid commented on the word stimulative
Ms. Maddow says this a lot. I would prefer stimulatory.
February 8, 2009