purchasing powernoun [ U ]
uk/ˈpɜː.tʃə.sɪŋ ˌpaʊər/us/ˈpɝː.tʃə.sɪŋ ˌpaʊ.ɚ/A person's purchasing power is their ability to buy goods:
The purchasing power of people living on investment income has fallen as interest rates have gone down.
the value of money considered as the amount of goods it will buy:
The purchasing power of the average hourly wage has risen in the last five years.
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Rich and wealthy
- bazillionaire
- be rolling in it idiom
- born
- clover
- comfort
- deep
- deep pockets idiom
- easy
- feather
- feather your own nest idiom
- flush
- landowner
- live high on/off the hog idiom
- live off the fat of the land idiom
- on easy street idiom
- privilege
- rags-to-riches
- roll
- stinking
- strike
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