Usually means: Demand not responsive to price.
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  1. inelastic: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. inelastic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. inelastic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. inelastic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. inelastic: Vocabulary.com
  6. inelastic: Wordnik
  7. inelastic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. inelastic: Wiktionary
  9. inelastic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. inelastic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. inelastic: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. inelastic: Dictionary.com
  13. Inelastic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Inelastic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. inelastic: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. inelastic: Rhymezone
  17. Inelastic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. inelastic: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. inelastic: Free Dictionary
  20. inelastic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. inelastic: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. Inelastic: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  2. Inelastic: Investopedia
  3. Comprehensive Financial (No longer online)
  4. inelastic: Legal dictionary
  5. Inelastic: Financial dictionary

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  1. inelastic: Encyclopedia

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  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. inelastic: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (inelastic)

▸ adjective:  (literal or figurative) Lacking elasticity; inflexible, unyielding.
▸ adjective:  (economics) Insensitive to changes in price.
▸ adjective:  (US, politics) Resistant to swings during elections; predictable.

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nonresilient, springless, dead, unelastic, impliable, inflexible, unbending, unflexible, nonelastic, unyielding, more...

Opposite:
elastic

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Inelastic scattering, inelastic demand, inelastic supply, Inelastic collision, inelastic deformation, more...

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Similar:
nonresilient, springless, dead, unelastic, impliable, inflexible, unbending, unflexible, nonelastic, unyielding, more...

Opposite:
elastic

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Inelastic scattering, inelastic demand, inelastic supply, Inelastic collision, inelastic deformation, inelastic neutron scattering, deep inelastic collision, Deep inelastic scattering, more...

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