Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hoover index

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.52 in modern English

Syllables: hoover in-dex
IPA

25

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

An economic measure equal to the portion of the total community income that would have to be redistributed to establish perfect income uniformity.

Etymology

After the economist Edgar Malone Hoover Jr.

Inflected Forms

the Hoover index (canonical)

Questions

What does hoover index mean?: An economic measure equal to the portion of the total community income that would have to be redistributed to establish perfect income uniformity.
Where does hoover index come from?: After the economist Edgar Malone Hoover Jr.

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