consumer price

  • 11consumer price index — ( CPI) The CPI, as it is called, measures the prices of consumer goods and services and is a measure of the pace of US inflation. The US Department of Labor publishes the CPI every month. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary a measure of the aggregate… …

    Financial and business terms

  • 12consumer price index — noun an index of the cost of all goods and services to a typical consumer • Syn: ↑CPI, ↑cost of living index • Hypernyms: ↑price index, ↑price level * * * noun the consumer price index US : a list of prices of goods and services that shows how… …

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  • 13Consumer price index (Belgium) — The Belgian Consumer Price Index (commonly referred to as the Index) is a list of prices of goods and services, kept by the Belgian Federal Government Service Economy. The Index is updated on a monthly basis, and reflects the evolution in the… …

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  • 14Consumer Price Index For Urban Wage Earners And Clerical Workers - CPI-W — A variation of the consumer price index, as complied by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in the United States, that measures the consumer prices certain workers are exposed to. The index is primarily used on an annual basis, to reflect changes in… …

    Investment dictionary

  • 15consumer price index (CPI) — Measure of living costs based on changes in retail prices. Consumer price indexes are widely used to measure changes in the cost of maintaining a given standard of living. The goods and services commonly purchased by the population covered are… …

    Universalium

  • 16consumer price index linkage — attachment to the consumer price index (measure of prices of goods bought by the consumer) …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 17Consumer Price Index — /kənˌsju:mə praɪs ˌɪndeks/ noun an American index showing how prices of consumer goods have risen over a period of time, used as a way of measuring inflation and the cost of living (NOTE: The British equivalent is the Retail Prices Index or RPI.) …

    Marketing dictionary in english

  • 18Consumer Price Index — /kənˌsju:mə praɪs ˌɪndeks/ noun an American index showing how prices of consumer goods have risen over a period of time, used as a way of measuring inflation and the cost of living. Abbreviation CPI (NOTE: The UK term is retail prices index.) ▪▪▪ …

    Dictionary of banking and finance

  • 19consumer price index — vartotojų kainų indeksas statusas Aprobuotas sritis kainų statistika apibrėžtis Santykinis rodiklis, kuriuo išreiškiamas vartojimo prekių ir paslaugų, kurias namų ūkiai perka vartojimo reikmėms, bendrasis kainų pokytis per tam tikrą laikotarpį.… …

    Lithuanian dictionary (lietuvių žodynas)

  • 20Consumer Price Index — CPI 1) In the UK, the usual name for the Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices (HICP), a measure of price level introduced in 1997 to enable comparisons within the EU. In 2003 the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced that government inflation… …

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