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indexation

indexation

7.1
Adjusting wages or payments so they rise with prices
  • noun
  • /ˌɪndɛkˈseɪʃən/
  • Specialized
translation icon : indexación
  • In the 1989 elections, 82 percent of the voters had approved a constitutional amendment mandating the automatic indexation of social security benefits.
  • wage indexation

We required indexation with inflation for the pension.

Examples

  • Lower-income Brazilians, mainly minimum-wage workers and those marginally employed in the urban informal sector, have lacked access to indexation and thus have suffered most from inflation.

    Academic text (1996)

  • The core anomaly of Brazil's financial regulations has been the indexation of financial assets to past rates of inflation.

    Academic text (1996)

  • We required indexation with inflation for the pension.

    The Royal Institution

  • After a system of indexation was installed, the inflation rate continued to be stabilized at around twenty percent per year during the early 1970s.

    Academic text (1992)

  • Meanwhile, de facto indexation in the financial sector persisted because it was essential to fund the public debt.

    Academic text (1996)

  • The first was the indexation of wages and assets that reinforced inflationary expectations.

    Academic text (1994)

  • The main provision has been indexation (to past rates of inflation) of virtually all medium- and long-term contracts in the formal sector.

    Academic text (1996)

  • The government implemented indexation of salaries to keep pace with rising living costs.

  • Many countries have adopted indexation policies to protect workers' wages from inflation.

  • This financial report discusses the indexation of interest rates to help borrowers manage their payments.

Synonyms

revalorization
vsindexation
  • Specialized
9.7

An official increase in the value of money, assets, or pay to match rising prices

is done by linking payments to a price measure that tracks inflation over time

How Automatic

indexation
  • Specialized
7.1
escalator clause
  • Jargon
7.9
adjustment
  • Specialized
40 3.7

Surface Forms

indexation singular
indexations plural

Morphology

indexation = index (transparent) = index + ation

Standard nominalization of the verb 'index' by '-ation' producing a noun for the process or result.

Etymology

Indexation comes from index ('pointer' or 'sign') and the ending -ation ('action' or 'process'). Think of an index like the index in a book that points to a page, so indexation is the action of linking wages or payments to a price index to keep them in line with rising prices.