inflation rate

1. 1.

   the rate of change of prices (as indicated by a price index) calculated on a monthly or annual basis

   Synonymsrate of inflation

   Broaderrate

Questions about inflation rate

What does inflation rate mean?

inflation rate means "the rate of change of prices (as indicated by a price index) calculated on a monthly or annual basis".

What is another word for inflation rate?

Close synonyms include rate of inflation. 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 inflation rate a common word?

inflation rate 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.