CPI

See also: cpi, čpi, and čpí

English

Noun

CPI (countable and uncountable, plural CPIs)

1. Initialism of consumer price index.
   • 2025 June 5, Alicia Wallace, “DOGE layoffs may have compromised the accuracy of government data”, in CNN Business‎^[1], archived from the original on 19 May 2026:

     To what extent the CPI reductions are a sign of what’s to come remains to be seen; but the immediate impacts to inflation readings could be minimal for now, Alan Detmeister, a UBS senior economist who previously helmed the Fed’s Wages and Prices section, told CNN.

2. Initialism of crash position indicator (“a deployable type of Emergency Locator Transmitter”).
3. (marketing) Initialism of cost per install (“pricing model for mobile app campaigns”).

   Coordinate term: CPC

Proper noun

CPI

1. (Indian politics) Initialism of Communist Party of India, a political party.
2. (Irish politics, UK politics) Initialism of Communist Party of Ireland.

Further reading

• consumer price index on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• emergency locator beacon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• CIP, ICP, IPC, P.C.I., PCI, PIC, pic

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /se.peˈi/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /sɨ.pɐˈi/

Proper noun

CPI f

1. (Brazil, politics, law) initialism of Comissão Parlamentar de Inquérito (“Parliamentary Inquiry Commission”)
2. (Portugal, law) initialism of Código da Propriedade Industrial (“Code of Intelectual Property”)
3. initialism of Câmera Policial Individual (“Individual Police Bodycam”)
4. initialism of Corte Penal Internacional (“International Criminal Court”)

Spanish

Proper noun

CPI f

1. (international law) initialism of Corte Penal Internacional; ICC.
   • 2025 August 1, “La CPI ordena al fiscal Karim Khan que se aparte del caso sobre Venezuela por posible conflicto de interés”, in CNN en Español‎^[2], archived from the original on 16 February 2026:

     El caso contra el Estado venezolano ante la CPI investiga acusaciones de violaciones de DD.HH. y delitos de lesa humanidad cometidos en Venezuela desde el 12 de febrero de 2014.

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