QE

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Translingual

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🜀 U+1F700, 🜀
ALCHEMICAL SYMBOL FOR QUINTESSENCE
[unassigned: U+1F6FD–U+1F6FF]
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[U+1F6FC]
Alchemical Symbols 🜁
[U+1F701]

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QE

  1. (alchemy, archaic) abbreviation for quintessence, quinta essentia
    Synonyms: 𝒬, , ē

English

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Noun

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QE (uncountable)

  1. (finance) Initialism of quantitative easing.
    • 2012, The Economist, Jul 14th 2012 issue, Quantitative easing: QE, or not QE?
      In times of severe economic distress, however, rates may fall to zero. Cue QE. When the Bank of Japan (BoJ) pioneered QE in 2001, its goal was to buy enough securities to create a desired quantity of reserves (hence, “quantitative easing”). Its actions, it hoped, would raise asset prices and end deflation.

Proper noun

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QE

  1. (Canada, informal) Alternative form of QEW

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Spanish

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Proper noun

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QE

  1. Abbreviation of Querétaro (Mexican state)