Dearer food

[sebayanpendam]

Hi,

I came across this term 'dearer food' in The Economist's article I read. What does it mean?

Dearet food has the capacity to do enormous good and enormous harm. It will hurt urban consumers, especially in poor countries, by increasing the price of what is already the most expensive item in their household budgets.

 

[tedmc]

More expensive food.

 

[emsr2d2]

Hi.

I came across [STRIKE]this[/STRIKE] the term 'dearer food' in an article in The Economist. [STRIKE]'s article I read.[/STRIKE] What does it mean?

Dearer food has the capacity to do enormous good and enormous harm. It will hurt urban consumers, especially in poor countries, by increasing the price of what is already the most expensive item in their household budgets.

Please note my corrections above.

"Dear" is a synonym of "expensive" so, as tedmc said "dearer" means "more expensive".

 

[GoesStation]

"Dear" is a synonym of "expensive" so, as tedmc said "dearer" means "more expensive".

Sadly, we Americans don't use this term.