indexation
nounThe automatic adjustment of an economic variable, such as wages, taxes, or pension benefits, to a cost-of-living index, so that the variable rises or falls in accordance with the rate of inflation.
nouna system of economic regulation in which wages and interest are tied to the cost-of-living index in order to compenaste for the effects of inflation.
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a system of economic regulation: wages and interest are tied to the cost-of-living index in order to reduce the effects of inflation