rate of inflation

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsinflation rate

   Broaderrate

Questions about rate of inflation

What does rate of inflation mean?

rate of inflation 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 rate of inflation?

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

rate of inflation 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.