retail price index
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
One is the retail price index - the RPI measure of inflation - and the other is the Bank of England base rate, plus 1%.
From BBC • Nov. 2, 2023
A day earlier, Mr. Lynch told Sky News that a deal should have been done in December, when the retail price index, a measure of inflation, was at 7 percent.
From New York Times • Jun. 21, 2022
In England, students are currently charged 5.6% on their student loans while they are studying - which is the retail price index plus 3%.
From BBC • Feb. 2, 2021
However, the link will be to the consumer price index rather than the retail price index, currently the lower of the two measures of inflation.
From The Guardian • Jun. 24, 2010
Fifty thousand pounds in modern money, using a retail price index, but £725,000 in modern money using an average wage multiplier.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
