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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
cpi is a noun meaning "an index of the cost of all goods and services to a typical consumer". It carries 2 recorded senses.
an index of the cost of all goods and services to a typical consumer
a self-report personality inventory originally derived from the MMPI; consists of several hundred yes-no questions and yields scores on a number of scales including dominance and self acceptance and self control and socialization and achievement etc.
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for cpi come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.