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inflation

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Word definitions for inflation in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., "swelling caused by gathering of 'wind' in the body; flatulence;" figuratively, "outbursts of pride," from Latin inflationem (nominative inflatio ) "a puffing up; flatulence," noun of action from past participle stem of inflare "blow into, puff ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a general and progressive increase in prices; "in inflation everything gets more valuable except money" [syn: rising prices ] [ant: deflation , disinflation ] (cosmology) a brief exponential expansion of the universe (faster than the speed of light) ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES combat inflation/crime/racism etc ▪ To combat inflation, the government raised interest rates. galloping inflation/consumption etc ▪ galloping inflation of 20 to 30% inflation rate ▪ an annualized inflation rate of 15% ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 An act, instance of, or state of expansion or increase in size, especially by injection of a gas. 2 (context economics English) An increase in the general level of prices or in the cost of living. 3 (context economics English) A decline in the value ...

Usage examples of inflation.

In Wisconsin, for example, there was little difference between Democrats and Greenbackers on the currency question, and even the Republicans in their platform leaned toward inflation, although the candidates declared against it.

General Jourge Videla, head of the army, proclaimed a new military junta to oust Isabelita Peron, citing the chronic inflation and massive unemployment as the reason for their intervention.

America reached full employment while simultaneously nullifying inflation, making obsolete the renowned Phillips Curve of the Keynesian school of economics, which graphically demonstrated that there was a necessary trade-off between unemployment and inflation, i.

It causes the wage-price spiral which is generally mislabeled inflation.

The main factor in its favor is its impact on prices, its suppressing of price inflation.

Adjusted for inflation, the wages paid by Wal-Mart have declined by about 35 percent since 1970, about in line with the decline in the real value of the minimum wage over this period.

The rich have done fine because they had significant amounts of wealth in hard currency, often outside the country, that actually increased their purchasing power in Iraq as a result of the inflation.

Yet those charlatans, those obscurers of the truth, blame inflation on everybody elseunions, business-anyone, anything, except themselves.

The borrowing interest rate was low, rents were low, inflation was high, and creditors were in no hurry to call in debts.

Inflation theory explains the ripples and eddies that make our universe possible.

Due to gross original underestimates, cost over-runs and inflation, the likely bill will probably be in excess of nine billion guilders - and this massive sum for a project that some crigineering experts say will not work anyway.

She it is who proposes the correcting of pretentiousness, of inflation, of dulness, and of the vestiges of rawness and grossness to be found among us.

Magnus, otherwise known to his fellows as Caput, because of his supposed cerebral inflation.

They'd had food coupons, breadlines, fuel shortages, and inflation higher than the World Trade Center.

Boettger declined to set an annualized rate, stating, “This unprecedented increase in the rate of inflation is a purely temporary phenomenon which cannot be tolerated.