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CPI
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A self-report personality inventory originally derived from the MMPI; consists of several hundred yes-no questions and yields scores on a number of scales including dominance and self acceptance and self control and socialization and achievement etc.
Synonyms:
California Personality Inventory; CPI
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("CPI" is a kind of...):
self-report inventory; self-report personality inventory (a personality inventory in which a person is asked which of a list of traits and characteristics describe her or him or to indicate which behaviors and hypothetical choices he or she would make)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An index of the cost of all goods and services to a typical consumer
Synonyms:
consumer price index; cost-of-living index; CPI
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("CPI" is a kind of...):
price index; price level (an index that traces the relative changes in the price of an individual good (or a market basket of goods) over time)
