consumer-price index

  • 21consumer 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… …

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  • 22consumer 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 …

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  • 23consumer 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 …

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  • 24consumer price index — noun Date: 1948 an index measuring the change in the cost of typical wage earner purchases of goods and services expressed as a percentage of the cost of these same goods and services in some base period called also cost of living index …

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  • 25consumer price index — noun (sometimes upper case) an index which provides a measure of the change in the average cost of a standard basket of retail goods by relating the cost in the current period to that of a base period; used as a measure of inflation. Abbrev.: CPI …

  • 26United 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… …

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  • 27(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 …

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  • 28the 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 …

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  • 29Harmonized Consumer Price Index (HCPI) — Гармонизированный (сглаженный по сезонности) индекс потребительских цен. Словарь терминов и сокращений рынка forex, Forex EuroClub …

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  • 30Core Consumer Price Index (Core CPI) — Базовый индекс потребительских цен: без учета цен на продукты питания и энергоносители Словарь терминов и сокращений рынка forex, Forex EuroClub …

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