consumer price
51consumer — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ big, great, heavy, large ▪ We are the biggest consumers of tropical hardwoods after Japan. ▪ average, ordinary ▪ …
52Price index — A price index (plural: “price indices” or “price indexes”) is a normalized average (typically a weighted average) of prices for a given class of goods or services in a given region, during a given interval of time. It is a statistic designed to… …
53price — priceable, adj. /pruys/, n., v., priced, pricing. n. 1. the sum or amount of money or its equivalent for which anything is bought, sold, or offered for sale. 2. a sum offered for the capture of a person alive or dead: The authorities put a price… …
54Price — /pruys/, n. 1. Bruce, 1845 1903, U.S. architect. 2. (Edward) Reynolds, born 1933, U.S. novelist. 3. (Mary) Leontyne /lee euhn teen /, born 1927, U.S. soprano. 4. a male given name. * * * I Amount of money that has to be paid to acquire a given… …
55consumer — consumership, n. /keuhn sooh meuhr/, n. 1. a person or thing that consumes. 2. Econ. a person or organization that uses a commodity or service. 3. Ecol. an organism, usually an animal, that feeds on plants or other animals. [1375 1425 for earlier …
56Price Level Targeting — A monetary policy goal of keeping overall price levels stable, or meeting a pre determined price level target. The price level used as a barometer is the Consumer Price Index (CPI), or some similarly broad measure of cost inputs. A central bank… …
57Price Index — Jährliche Preisveränderungsraten in Deutschland von 1965 bis 2004 Verbraucherpreisindex in Deutschland, 1991 bis 2008, Jahr 2005=100 …
58Price Rigging — An illegal action performed by a group of conspiring businesses that occurs when the firms agree to artificially inflate prices in an attempt to recognize higher profits at the expense of the consumer. Price rigging can be found in any industry… …
59Price Level Adjusted Mortgage - PLAM — A special type of graduated payment mortgage that adjusts for inflation. The interest rate of a price level adjusted mortgage (PLAM) does not change, but the outstanding principal is changed periodically based on the inflation rate. These… …
60price indexes — See: consumer price index and producer price index …
