"suppress prices" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to keep prices from rising or to keep them at a certain level. Example: The government is implementing policies to suppress prices and control inflation.
Neither of those efforts did much to suppress prices, and the latest effort may not work either.
But reducing livestock production can take months to years, and in the interim it can actually suppress prices as breeding animals are slaughtered to reduce production.
The more ambitious CET would further suppress prices by introducing more renewable energy, resulting in expensive gas generators less often being able to set the price of electricity in the wholesale market.
They accused the banks of conspiring to suppress prices of silver futures on the Commodity Exchange division of the New York Mercantile Exchange, beginning in the spring of 2008.
On one side of the rope is the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, the Saudi-led group whose strategy for retaining market dominance has twirled from one failed tactic to another as it struggles to conquer a glut that will almost surely suppress prices for at least another year.
While this was expected, many investors feared that moving interest rates too high too fast could negatively impact the economy and also suppress prices.
Cosy deals between hospitals and insurers that suppress price information should be barred.
In some places the boom was big enough and irrational enough to suppress price signals from lots of new supply.
America, for instance, suppresses prices by restricting exports.
He added, "The main reason for suppressed prices of homes is the difficulty of financing them".
High levels of interest from these natural buyers are thought to be suppressing prices at the moment.
