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Consumer Price Index
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consumer price index n
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an index measuring the change in the cost of typical wage-earner purchases of goods and services in some base period called also cost-of-living index
Source: Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law ©1996. Merriam-Webster, Incorporated. Published under license with Merriam-Webster, Incorporated.