inflation | ||
1. | [ noun ] (economics) a general and progressive increase in prices | |
Synonyms: | rising_prices | |
Examples: | "in inflation everything gets more valuable except money" |
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Related terms: | disinflation deflation economic_process stagflation cost-pull_inflation reflation demand-pull_inflation inflationary_spiral inflate | |
2. | [ noun ] lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity | |
Synonyms: | pompousness ostentatiousness pomposity pretentiousness splashiness ostentation | |
Related terms: | inelegance | |
3. | [ noun ] (cosmology) a brief exponential expansion of the universe (faster than the speed of light) postulated to have occurred shortly after the big bang | |
Related terms: | explosion cosmology | |
4. | [ noun ] a act of filling something with air | |
Related terms: | deflation expansion balloon | |
Similar spelling: |
inflammation inflationary infliction inflection inflexion inflectional inflate inflater inflated inflator inflaming involution inflatable invalidation inviolate infiltration inflect inflict inflammable inflame in_play in_full in_a_flash |