consumer price
21Consumer 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… …
22Consumer Price Index - CPI — A measure that examines the weighted average of prices of a basket of consumer goods and services, such as transportation, food and medical care. The CPI is calculated by taking price changes for each item in the predetermined basket of goods and …
23Consumer Price Index For All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) — A measure that examines the changes in the price of a basket of goods and services purchased by urban consumers. The urban consumer population is deemed by many as a better representative measure of the general public because most of the country… …
24consumer price index — consum′er price′ in dex n. bus an index of the change in the cost of common goods and services paid by a typical consumer, expressed as the percentage change in the total cost of these same items over a previous base period Abbr.: CPI • Etymology …
25consumer price index — con.sumer price .index n a list of the prices of products that shows how much prices have increased during a particular period of time …
26consumer price index, the — con,sumer price ,index, the noun AMERICAN a list of the prices of some basic goods and services published by the U.S. government to show how much prices in general have risen or fallen …
27consumer price index — noun (C) AmE a list of the prices of products that is prepared to show how much prices have increased during a particular period of time: retail price index BrE …
28United States Consumer Price Index — The U.S. Consumer Price Index is a time series measure of the price level of consumer goods and services. The Bureau of Labor Statistics, which started the statistic in 1919, publishes the CPI on a monthly basis. The CPI is calculated by… …
29(the) consumer price index — the consumer price index UK US noun american the retail price index http://www.macmillandictionary.com/med2cd/weblinks/consumer price index.htm Thesaurus: prices and costssynonym types of prices and describing prices and costshyponym * * * the …
30the consumer price index — US : a list of prices of goods and services that shows how much prices have changed in a given period of time abbr. CPI ; called also (Brit) retail price index • • • Main Entry: ↑consumer price index …
