DCHP-2

stabilization payment DCHP-2 (October 2016)

• n. — Politics, Finance

  a payment made by the Canadian government to a province or to a group of producers in order to stabilize a sector of the economy.

  Type: 5. Frequency — The term has a North American dimension (see Chart 1), though the frequency is somewhat higher in Canada than in the US.
  See also COD-2, s.v. "stabilization payment", which is marked "Cdn".