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mis′ery in′dex, 
  1. Businessan unofficial indication of a nation's economic health, derived by adding the percentage rate of inflation to the percentage of unemployed workers:With inflation running at 15 percent and unemployment at 8 percent, the misery index is 23 percent.
  • 1975–80

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