price fixing — n. Conspiring with other individuals or companies in the same business to set prices instead of letting them be set by market forces, usually to restrict competition. The Essential Law Dictionary. Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc … Law dictionary
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United States Consumer Price Index — The U.S. Consumer Price Index is a time series measure of the price level of consumer goods and services. The Bureau of Labor Statistics, which started the statistic in 1919, publishes the CPI on a monthly basis. The CPI is calculated by… … Wikipedia
consumer price index — noun an index of the cost of all goods and services to a typical consumer • Syn: ↑CPI, ↑cost of living index • Hypernyms: ↑price index, ↑price level * * * noun the consumer price index US : a list of prices of goods and services that shows how… … Useful english dictionary
(the) consumer price index — the consumer price index UK US noun american the retail price index http://www.macmillandictionary.com/med2cd/weblinks/consumer price index.htm Thesaurus: prices and costssynonym types of prices and describing prices and costshyponym * * * the … Useful english dictionary
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