stimulative
IPA: stˈɪmjʌɫeɪtɪv
noun
- (obsolete) Something having a stimulating effect; a stimulant, an incentive.
adjective
- Having a stimulating effect.
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Examples of "stimulative" in Sentences
- Or did you go through here and see these things as long-term stimulative?
- These short-term stimulative things ... pump up some money in the quarter where they occur. ...
- According to the CBO it should be short term stimulative, but in the longer term will slow down the economy.
- 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?
- 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)?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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