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A statistical estimate of the level of prices of some class of goods or services.
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price index — UK US noun [C] ► ECONOMICS a measurement of the changes in the price of goods and services over a period of time: »The latest UK house price index was released on Tuesday. → See also CONSUMER PRICE INDEX(Cf. ↑consumer price index), COST OF LIVING … Financial and business terms
price index — price .index n a list of particular goods and services and how much their prices change each month →↑retail price index … Dictionary of contemporary English
price index — price ,index noun count a system for comparing the price of something in an economic market with its price at an earlier time … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
price index — n. INDEX (sense 5b) … English World dictionary
Price 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… … Wikipedia
price index — an index of the changes in the prices of goods and services, based on the prices of the same goods and services at a period arbitrarily selected as a base, usually expressed as 100. [1885 90] * * * Measure of change in a set of prices, consisting … Universalium
price index — noun an index that traces the relative changes in the price of an individual good (or a market basket of goods) over time • Syn: ↑price level • Hypernyms: ↑index, ↑index number, ↑indicant, ↑indicator • Hyponyms: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
Price Index — Jährliche Preisveränderungsraten in Deutschland von 1965 bis 2004 Verbraucherpreisindex in Deutschland, 1991 bis 2008, Jahr 2005=100 … Deutsch Wikipedia
price index — n. a consumer; retail price index * * * [ praɪsˌɪndeks] retail price index a consumer … Combinatory dictionary
price index — noun (C) a system of numbers by which the prices of goods can be compared with what they were in the past see also: retail price index … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
price index — See Retail Price Index … Big dictionary of business and management
