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hyperinflation
Word definitions for hyperinflation in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Diehard optimists, like Mr Pynzenyk, say that hyperinflation and economic collapse will eventually force the country to its senses. ▪ Examination of the chest was unremarkable with no evidence of hyperinflation and clear auscultation. ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1930 in the economic sense, from hyper- + inflation . Earlier as a medical term in treatment of lung diseases.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context economics English) A very high rate of inflation.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
hyperinflation \hyperinflation\ n. an unusually rapid rate of monetary inflation, as when prices rise more than 100 per cent per year. Note: A famous example occurred in Germany after the first World War, reaching its peak in the period 1923. When the hyperinflation ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Certain figures in this article use scientific notation for readability. In economics, hyperinflation occurs when a country experiences very high and usually accelerating rates of inflation , rapidly eroding the real value of the local currency , and causing ...
Usage examples of hyperinflation.
This is not the dissolution of the Cartesian ego, but its hyperinflation to cosmic proportions: a temporary transfusion of higher domains has empowered a monster.
Because it no longer had oil revenues to pay for these expenditures, the government instead began printing money, creating the near hyperinflation of the mid-1990s.
In 1994, faced with hyperinflation and mounting threats to his regime, Saddam took the inexplicable step of threatening another invasion of Kuwait--and the best evidence we have, from Hussein Kamel, was that Saddam was not bluffing but genuinely intended to attack.
Against the hyperinflation of death that has cheapened all life, it is salutary to return to the physics, to remind ourselves about nuclear scale.
And he was away, his voice full of passionate connoisseurship, with many parallels and precedents, Italian banking, liquidity preference, composition fallacy, hyperinflation, business confidence syndrome, booms and panics, US corporations, the sobriety of financial architecture, the Bust of '29, the suicides on La Salle and Wall Street.