underlying inflation
noun[U]
ECONOMICSukusthegeneralincreaseinpricesovertime, notincludingthepricesofparticularthings such asenergy,food, ormortgages:
Thegovernmentaimstokeepunderlyinginflationat 2.5% or less.
Examplesofunderlying inflation
underlying inflation
This differs from core inflation (also called non-food-manufacturing inflation orunderlyinginflation), which excludes factors such as food and energy costs.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.After 1960, the difficulties in sustaining external confidence multiplied as wage bargainers belatedly adjusted tounderlyinginflation.
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Underlyinginflation, however, is still only 1.4%, which means we can consider oil to be the basic and fundamental cause of this situation.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
Underlyinginflationis 2.9 per cent. and has been below 4 per cent. for four years, the longest for almost half a century.
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Underlyinginflationhas been below 4 per cent. for three and a half years, the longest period of sustained low inflation for almost 50 years.
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Underlyinginflationhas now been below 3 per cent. for 19 consecutive months, the longest such period since 1961.
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Underlyinginflationis under control, at its lowest for 25 years and well within its target range.
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Underlyinginflationis, at 2 per cent., at its lowest level for a generation.
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Underlyinginflationis at its lowest level for almost 40 years and employment has risen by 1.5 million since 1997.
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Underlyinginflationat 3.5 per cent. is good, but still not good enough.
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