PRICE INFLATION

  

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PRICE INFLATION

Specialty Definition: PRICE INFLATION

DomainDefinition

Economics

A consistent increase in the general level of prices. It does not mean that the price for a particular item is on the rise, but rather that all prices are generally rising. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: PRICE INFLATION

Specialty definitions using "PRICE INFLATION": harmonised indices of consumer prices, harmonized indices of consumer prices. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: PRICE INFLATION

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Netherlands

The current slowdown of the economy has been overshadowed by a sharp flare-up of consumer price inflation. (references)

Cote D'ivoire

Like many other developing countries, Cte d'Ivoire's economy has been cyclical since the country gained independence from France in 1960. In the early decades, Cte d'Ivoire, a significant exporter of cocoa, coffee, palm oil, rubber and other tropical agricultural commodities, rode the wave of commodity price inflation and access to easy money from international lenders. (references)

Eq. Guinea

Consumer price inflation has declined from the 38.8 percent experienced in 1994 following the CFA franc devaluation, to 7.8 percent in 1998, and 1.0 percent in 1999, according to BEAC data. (references)

Political Economy

Croatia

While retail price inflation was 7.4 percent in 2000, by the end of the third quarter of the year, inflation had fallen to 3.8 percent. (references)

East Timor

Urban unemployment and wage and price inflation remained significant problems. (references)

EL SALVADOR

Energy prices have also moderated in 2001. Consumer price inflation is around 3 to 3.5 percent. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Speeches: PRICE INFLATION

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Jimmy Carter

1977-1981Home price inflation and high interest rates threaten to put homeownership out of reach for first-time homebuyers.

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Modern Translation: PRICE INFLATION

Language Translations for "PRICE INFLATION"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

prisinflation (cost escalation, inflation). (various references)

   

French

  

inflation des prix. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

πληθωρισμός τιμών (cost escalation, inflation). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

"תיקרות (rise in prices). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

icepray inflationay

   

Spanish

  

inflación de precios (cost escalation, inflation). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: PRICE INFLATION

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-f-i-i-i-l-n-n-o-p-r-t"

-3 letters: reification, reinflation, replication.

-4 letters: antipolice, frictional, infarction, inflection, infliction, infraction, interionic, politician, pontifical, pratincole, proficient.

-5 letters: anticline, carnitine, ciliation, clintonia, container, cornelian, crenation, crinoline, epilation, falconine, fictional, filiation, financier, fornicate, fortalice, francolin, frontline, inception, incipient, infantile, infection, inflation, inflicter, inflictor, interclan, laticifer, lineation, nonpareil, orificial, pearlitic, pictorial, plication, porcelain, precoital, prolactin, reflation, reliction.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Quotations: Non-fiction
3. Quotations: Speeches
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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