What does "cpi" mean?
Initialism of consumer price index.
Cpi
name, noun
name, noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: Initialism of consumer price index.
- Grammar: cpi is listed as name, noun.
- Nearest alternatives: california personality inventory, clock cycles per instruction, communist party, consumer price index.
- Useful contrasts: deflation, deflationary, nominal.
- Usage evidence: To what extent the CPI reductions are a sign of what’s to come remains to be seen; but the immediate impacts to inflation readings could be minimal for now, Alan Detmeister, a UBS senior economist who previously helmed the Fed’s Wages and Prices section, told CNN.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 Initialism of consumer price index. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
"To what extent the CPI reductions are a sign of what’s to come remains to be seen; but the immediate impacts to inflation readings could be minimal for now, Alan Detmeister, a UBS senior economist who previously helmed the Fed’s Wages and Prices section, told CNN."
- 2 Initialism of characters per inch.; The measure of a number of typeset font characterss per inch used or supported by a digital display device
- 3 a self-report personality inventory originally derived from the MMPI; consists of several hundred yes-no questions and yields scores on a number of scales including dominance and self acceptance and self control and socialization and achievement etc. wordnet
- 4 Initialism of crash position indicator (“a deployable type of Emergency Locator Transmitter”). abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
- 5 Initialism of characters per inch.; The measure of characters that can be stored in each inch of magnetic tape
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- 6 an index of the cost of all goods and services to a typical consumer wordnet
- 7 Initialism of cost per install (“pricing model for mobile app campaigns”). abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Proper Noun
- 1 Initialism of Communist Party of India, a political party. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Synonyms
All synonyms california personality inventoryclock cycles per instructioncommunist partyconsumer price indexcost of living indexcost-of-living index
Antonyms
Example
"To what extent the CPI reductions are a sign of what’s to come remains to be seen; but the immediate impacts to inflation readings could be minimal for now, Alan Detmeister, a UBS senior economist who previously helmed the Fed’s Wages and Prices section, told CNN."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "cpi"?
Common synonyms include: california personality inventory, clock cycles per instruction, communist party, consumer price index, cost of living index, cost-of-living index.
How do you use "cpi" in a sentence?
To what extent the CPI reductions are a sign of what’s to come remains to be seen; but the immediate impacts to inflation readings could be minimal for now, Alan Detmeister, a UBS senior economist who previously helmed the Fed’s Wages and Prices section, told CNN.