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price index

noun

Definition of PRICE INDEX

:  an index number expressing the level of a group of commodity prices relative to the level of the prices of the same commodities during an arbitrarily chosen base period and used to indicate changes in the level of prices from one period to another
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First Known Use of PRICE INDEX

1886

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