retail price index definitions

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: an index of changes in retail prices

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

The retail price index is a list of the prices of typical goods which shows how much the cost of living changes from one month to the next. (BRIT BUSINESS; in AM, use cost-of-living index) The retail price index for September is expected to show inflation edging up to about 10.8 per cent. N-PROPER: the N