constant dollar

noun

1. a dollar valued according to its purchasing power in an arbitrarily set year and then adjusted for price changes in other years so that real purchasing power can be compared by giving prices as they would presumably be in the base year.

Example Sentences

To calculate the funding by country, reporters used the “Constant Dollar Amount” field, which is adjusted for inflation.

From Washington Post

On a constant dollar basis, Visa's payment volumes rose 7% for the three months ended Dec. 31, 2022.

From Reuters

Transactions processed at the world's largest payments processor rose 12% on a constant dollar basis to 50.9 billion in the fourth quarter ended Sept. 30.

From Reuters

On a constant dollar basis, Visa's payment volumes surged 10%, while cross-border volumes - a key measure that tracks spending on cards beyond the country of issue - jumped 36%.

From Reuters

Total cross-border volume rose 38% on a constant dollar basis from a year earlier.

From Reuters