单词 | misery index |
释义 | misery index in British Englishnoun a figure calculated by adding the rate of unemployment to the rate of inflation, used as an indicator of the economic welfare of an average member of society misery index in American Englishnoun an unofficial indication of a nation's economic health, derived by adding the percentage rate of inflation to the percentage of unemployed workers With inflation running at 15 percent and unemployment at 8 percent, the misery indexis 23 percent Word origin [1975–80]This word is first recorded in the period 1975–80. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: bench press, family therapy, front-load, methanogen, retrovirusExamples of 'misery index' in a sentence |
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