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cpi

1 American  
  1. characters per inch.


CPI 2 American  
CPI 1 British  

abbreviation

  1. consumer price index

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

cpi 2 British  

abbreviation

  1. characters per inch

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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They have just monetary and fiscal policy, aggregate demand and supply, and cpi inflation.

From Economist Apr. 23, 2013

Thus by your Eurostat-based calculations not cpi adjusted nominal exchange rate pc income has decreased by less than 2% in Spain and Italy yet by 12% in Britain, 13% in Greece.

From Economist Apr. 2, 2013

You did adjust for cpi in your latest entry regarding Britain.

From Economist Apr. 2, 2013

Agree on using cpi and not GDP deflator to measure real standard of living changes.

From Economist Apr. 2, 2013

Many economists believe the cpi, as presently figured, overstates the extent of inflation and makes cost-of-living increases more generous than they should be.

From Time Magazine Archive

Government caps on retail fuel prices and lower electricity tariffs helped restrain inflation, though core CPI rose 2.6% in July.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 3, 2026

Core CPI, which excludes volatile food and energy prices, rose 2.6% on year in July and rose 0.4% on month.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 3, 2026

Consider the above chart, which plots three different ways of calculating the CPI:

From MarketWatch Aug. 1, 2026

But shoppers were paying 9% more in May compared with a year before, according to the CPI.

From BBC Jul. 30, 2026

His p504 chart on GDP and CPI does not really clarify how Alan Blinder can come up with a correction of -1% per annum on the CPI.

From Definition & Reality in the General Theory of Political Economy by Colignatus, Thomas

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