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/stˈɪmjʊlətˌɪv/
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[ US /ˈstɪmjəˌɫeɪtɪv/ ]
[ US /ˈstɪmjəˌɫeɪtɪv/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- capable of arousing or accelerating physiological or psychological activity or response by a chemical agent
How To Use stimulative In A Sentence
- Want to coordinate the relation of investment and consumption, farther stimulative spending increases.
- Mass consumption, stimulative consumer policies, and revolutions in wholesaling and retailing led to the convergence of regional economies.
- 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. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
- Consumer spending has held up remarkably well for more than two years - aided by extremely low interest rates and stimulative fiscal policy.
- 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
- Implementation highway construction invests system diversity, the development that stimulative highway builds.
- Stimulative language and the core mission that a variety of languages are U . N . Educational and target.
- The abidance that wants stimulative countryman economy grows, about to undertake adjustment to original industry structure.
- Porpoises, snow-white terns sitting on drifting wood, sea-eagles, ospreys, sea-snakes, sails, the smudge of steamer-smoke and its ten-mile plume, sunlit isles and speckless sky, with no sound save the purring of the engine and the prattle of the water against the bows — a catalogue of the commonplace, and yet stimulative of entertainment and content. Last Leaves from Dunk Island
- The Fed's 2001-02 interest rate cuts are having some stimulative effect, as is the huge swing in the federal budget from surplus to deficit.