base period

Definitions

Accounting

• noun a period against which comparisons are made
• noun the time that an employee must work before becoming eligible for state unemployment insurance benefits

Economics

• noun a period against which an index is measured, usually taken as equalling 100

Health Economics

• (written as Base Period)
  The time period or date at which an index is said to take the value 100.

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Contexts for “base period”

4 definitions in context
• Accounting
• Economics
• Health Economics