purchasing power
noun [U] ECONOMICSDefinition
› a measure of how much one unit of a particular currency can buy at a particular time: The purchasing power of the dollar was much greater in the 1960s than now.
(Definition of purchasing power noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
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