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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
inflationary
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
expectations
▪ The reason for this is that inflationary expectations are revised according to what has happened to inflation in the past.
▪ These rates did not soar because there was a sudden upward adjustment in thirty-year inflationary expectations.
▪ This wage inflation can exist even when there is high unemployment and when there are no inflationary expectations.
▪ Nor were there any private inflationary expectations at the begin-ning of 1994.
▪ The ecu link may provide a firmer anchor for inflationary expectations.
▪ Sinai said the Fed has successfully dampened both inflation and inflationary expectations.
▪ The Treasury said inflationary expectations had improved and that downward pressure on inflation continued.
pressure
▪ The dramatic events of Black Wednesday leave little chance of avoiding a quick revival of inflationary pressure.
▪ A national economy that is expanding without creating inflationary pressures that would force the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates.
▪ And where internal inflationary pressures were stronger than in the United States, devaluation was used to push the constraint aside.
▪ Moderating economic expansion in recent months has reduced potential inflationary pressures going forward.
▪ They believe that the reduced spending from the government will reduce inflationary pressures.
▪ The labour market is still tight; other inflationary pressures have yet to abate.
▪ It is generally recognised that protectionist policies lead to inflationary pressures on the economy.
spiral
▪ The inflationary spiral constituted a grave threat which, if not halted, could jeopardise the entire economy.
▪ He started blustering about the general election and an end to the inflationary spiral.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
inflationary spiral
▪ He started blustering about the general election and an end to the inflationary spiral.
▪ The inflationary spiral constituted a grave threat which, if not halted, could jeopardise the entire economy.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I recommend that the funding continue at the present level, with an inflationary consideration - £5,954.
▪ I was then asked to give a seminar on the inflationary universe at Drexel University in Philadelphia.
▪ Imagine how many times restaurants and merchants had to change their posted prices during the inflationary 1970s, when prices almost doubled.
▪ Many governments thus resort to financing expenditure through domestic bank borrowing and printing money, both of which are inflationary.
▪ The inflationary spiral constituted a grave threat which, if not halted, could jeopardise the entire economy.
▪ The 1970s and 1980s were inflationary decades.
▪ The floating of the pound in 1972 symbolized this turnaround in favour of sustaining expansion regardless of the inflationary cost.
▪ Trust me, he said - and then presided over an inflationary boom.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
inflationary

1916, from inflation + -ary.

Wiktionary
inflationary

a. cause or liable to cause inflation.

WordNet
inflationary

adj. associated with or tending to cause increases in inflation; "inflationary prices" [ant: deflationary]

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Usage examples of "inflationary".

An inflationary economy sent wages and prices skyrocketing before settling down to a more modest climb.

We have to talk about it Christina, the housing market is down and this whole inflationary.

It was fairly common for those in the first inflationary rush of infatuation, lust or love to embrace almost exclusively the inner voicelessness of implant-articulation in preference to the somehow physically off-putting and clumsy medium of normal speech, and although Pieter did not think Lucia jealous of their guest - any more than Gil seemed able to spare the girl more than the most cursory attention - she did seem to resent both the simple distraction she represented and the fact Pieter had suggested they communicate by speech in deference to the girl's seeming total lack of implants.

He slips his glasses on, takes the universe off hold, and tells it to take him for a long walk while he catches up on the latest on the tensor-mode gravitational waves in the cosmic background radiation (which, it is theorized, may be waste heat generated by irreversible computational processes back during the inflationary epoch.

It's all part of the damnable inflationary pattern that's designed to cheat people on pensions and with fixed incomes and so forth.

As long as he kept up even a token resistance, the inflationary, growth curve would show a controlled annual 10 percent climb.

Yet, thanks to poor weather conditions during the last two years and the inflationary spiral in diesel fuel costs, farms are going bankrupt at the highest rate since 1934.

Due to an inflationary spiral in the economy of Deluros VIII, the interest on Nighthawk's principle was no longer sufficient to cover the very high cost of this facility.

So I was aware that the non-depression was moving slowly into a more normal inflationary spiral.

So I was aware that the nondepression was moving slowly into a more normal inflationary spiral.