CONSUMER PRICE INDEX


Meaning of CONSUMER PRICE INDEX in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ 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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