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misery index
noun[ S ]
ECONOMICSukus
a measure of how the economy of a country is doing that combines the rate of inflation and the unemployment rate:
the misery index rises/falls
Inflation is no longer a problem, and as a result, the misery index is much lower.
Examples of misery index
misery index
Think of it as a miseryindex for the male population.
From The Atlantic
Our chronic gratuitous interventions abroad at staggering expense under the delusion of spreading democracy and peace have diminished our security and spiked the world's miseryindex.
From Huffington Post
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