annual rate of inflation
1rate of inflation — UK US noun [S] ► ECONOMICS the rate at which prices increase over time, causing the value of money to fall: more/less than the rate of inflation »The pay offer was less than the rate of inflation. »They proposed fare increases of more than three… …
2rate of inflation — noun the rate of change of prices (as indicated by a price index) calculated on a monthly or annual basis • Syn: ↑inflation rate • Hypernyms: ↑rate …
3Annual Rate — The comparison of the average level of a given rate, e.g. inflation, in the current year with the average in the previous year. The benefit of this measure is that it smoothes out unusually large or small changes that may have occurred for… …
4annual — an‧nu‧al [ˈænjuəl] adjective 1. annual events happen once a year: • Shareholders can vote at the annual meeting. • an annual audit see also semi annual 2. ACCOUNTING calculated over a period of a year …
5inflation — in|fla|tion W2S2 [ınˈfleıʃən] n [U] 1.) a continuing increase in prices, or the rate at which prices increase inflation rate/rate of inflation ▪ The annual rate of inflation fell. ▪ Inflation is now running at over 16%. ▪ countries with high… …
6Inflation Targeting — A central banking policy that revolves around meeting preset, publicly displayed targets for the annual rate of inflation. The benchmark used for inflation targeting is typically a price index of a basket of consumer goods, such as the Consumer… …
7inflation-adjusted gross domestic product — ➔ gross domestic product * * * inflation adjusted gross domestic product UK US noun [U] ECONOMICS ► the total value of goods and services produced within a country, which includes the effect of inflation but not the income from products and… …
8Inflation — This article is about a rise in the general price level. For the expansion of the early universe, see Inflation (cosmology). For other uses, see Inflation (disambiguation). Inflation rates around the world in 2007 …
9Rate of return — In finance, rate of return (ROR), also known as return on investment (ROI), rate of profit or sometimes just return, is the ratio of money gained or lost (whether realized or unrealized) on an investment relative to the amount of money invested.… …
10Inflation tax — An inflation tax is an analogous pejorative for the economic disadvantage suffered by holders of cash and cash equivalents in one denomination of currency due to the effects of inflation, which acts as a hidden tax that subtracts value from those …