consumer price inflation
noun [U]Definition
› ECONOMICS increases in the prices that people pay in a particular period of time for goods and services, and the measurement of these rises: The rise in wholesale prices was not unduly alarming because consumer price inflation seems under control.
(Definition of consumer price inflation noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
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