WordNet
n. the rate of change of prices (as indicated by a price index) calculated on a monthly or annual basis [syn: rate of inflation]
Usage examples of "inflation rate".
He had everything he'd ever wanted, and even with conservative portfolio management, his personal wealth would continue to rise faster than the inflation rate because he didn't have the ego to spend even as much as the annualized return would generate.
Our inflation rate has trebled, for no other reason than apprehension in our financial circles over the impact of these new technologies from space.
Boettger predicts continuing moderation in the inflation rate for the next sixty days.
By August 1991, Iraq's inflation rate reached 2,000 percent and earnings had fallen to one tenth of the prewar figures.
In the late 1980s, the dimensions of the Stepinac issue grew as the conflicting Serb and Croat positions hardened under the weight of increased poverty, an annual inflation rate of several thousand percent, and the fragmentation of the Yugoslav federation.
Hank Aaron toppled Babe Ruth's longstanding home-run record, and the inflation rate topped fifteen percent, and the legendary Muhammad Ali defeated George Foreman to regain his world-heavyweight title.
The inflation rate reached as high as eighteen thousand percent per month in August 2026.
Faced with a treasury which had been effectively empty for over a century, desperation had driven Frankel to propose limiting BLS adjustments to the inflation rate, maintaining its actual buying power without increase.
I haven't been able to do a thing about the inflation rate, but terrorism is down all over the world.
The first one, when he was not toying with his mustache, was an economist who showed charts which he claimed proved that private investment in space industries would help the national economy greatly, but government investment in space would only increase the inflation rate.
These are politicians: right now all they care about is a 29% inflation rate and the poor showing that the shilling makes against the Republic credit.
One can see changes in local attitudes by changes in a world's imports or the inflation rate.