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RATE OF INFLATION

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Dictionary entry overview: What does rate of inflation mean?

• RATE OF INFLATION (noun)
The noun RATE OF INFLATION has 1 sense:

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

Familiarity information: RATE OF INFLATION used as a noun is very rare.

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• RATE OF INFLATION (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

inflation rate; rate of inflation

Hypernyms ("rate of inflation" is a kind of...):

rate (a magnitude or frequency relative to a time unit)

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