constant dollar

American

noun

a dollar valued according to its purchasing power in an arbitrarily set year and then adjusted for price changes in other years so that real purchasing power can be compared by giving prices as they would presumably be in the base year.

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On a constant dollar basis, Visa's payment volumes rose 7% for the three months ended Dec. 31, 2022.

From Reuters • Jan. 26, 2023

Total cross-border volume rose 38% on a constant dollar basis from a year earlier.

From Reuters • Oct. 26, 2021

But since 1983, they have actually declined by $202 million in constant dollar terms.

From US News • Aug. 19, 2016

“This device is a billion times more valuable per constant dollar than the computer I used as a student at MIT in the late ’60s,” he says.

From Forbes • Oct. 12, 2011

In constant dollar terms, it is the world's largest trader.

From The Belgian Curtain Europe after Communism by Vaknin, Samuel

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