consumer price index

1. 1.

   an index of the cost of all goods and services to a typical consumer

   SynonymsCPIcost-of-living index

   Broaderprice index

Questions about consumer price index

What does consumer price index mean?

consumer price index means "an index of the cost of all goods and services to a typical consumer".

What is another word for consumer price index?

Close synonyms include CPI, cost-of-living index. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is consumer price index a common word?

consumer price index is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.