RATE OF INFLATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rate of inflation mean? 

• RATE OF INFLATION (noun)
  The noun RATE OF INFLATION has 1 sense:

1. the rate of change of prices (as indicated by a price index) calculated on a monthly or annual basis

  Familiarity information: RATE OF INFLATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RATE OF INFLATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The rate of change of prices (as indicated by a price index) calculated on a monthly or annual basis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

inflation rate; rate of inflation

Hypernyms ("rate of inflation" is a kind of...):

rate (a magnitude or frequency relative to a time unit)

 Context examples 

A rate of inflation or deflation of a manometric device based on the unit of pressure equal to 133,332 Pa or 1.316E10-3 standard atmosphere during period of time equal to one sixtieth of a minute.

(Millimeter of Mercury per Second, NCI Thesaurus)