Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act of inflating or the state of being inflated.
- n. A persistent increase in the level of consumer prices or a persistent decline in the purchasing power of money, caused by an increase in available currency and credit beyond the proportion of available goods and services.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of inflating or distending with air or gas.
- n. The state of being inflated or distended; distention: as, the inflation of the lungs.
- n. Undue expansion or elevation; increase beyond the proper or just amount or value: as, inflation of trade, currency, or prices; inflation of stocks (that is, of the price of stocks).
- n. The state of being puffed up; turgidness; pretentiousness; conceit: as, inflation of style or manner.
Wiktionary
- n. An act, instance of, or state of expansion or increase in size, especially by injection of a gas.
- n. economics An increase in the general level of prices or in the cost of living.
- n. economics A decline in the value of money.
- n. economics An increase in the quantity of money, leading to a devaluation of existing money.
- n. Undue expansion or increase, as of academic grades.
- n. cosmology An extremely rapid expansion of the universe, theorised to have occurred very shortly after the big bang.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act or process of inflating, or the state of being inflated, as with air or gas; distention; expansion; enlargement.
- n. The state of being puffed up, as with pride; conceit; vanity.
- n. U.S. Persistent expansion or increase in the general level of prices, usually caused by overissue of currency, and resulting in a reduced value of the currency. It is contrasted with
deflation , and is when it occurs to a very high degree is called hyperinflation.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the act of filling something with air
- n. lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
- n. a general and progressive increase in prices
- n. (cosmology) a brief exponential expansion of the universe (faster than the speed of light) postulated to have occurred shortly after the big bang
Etymologies
- From Middle English, from Latin īnflātiō ("expansion", "blowing up"), from īnflātus, the perfect passive participle of īnflō ("blow into", "expand"), from in ("into") + flō ("blow"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“After 5 years this stocks may be (but not required) sold on the market or if they have less value that original value + inflation, government will buy them at value +inflation.”
“Officials are worried about the psychological impact that the word inflation might have on Argentines, many of whom suffered through hyperinflation two decades ago.”
The Wall Street Journal: Argentine Consulting Firm Stops Publishing Inflation Estimates
“Mervyn King vs eurozone: A tale of two banks Bank of England Governor Mervyn King coined the term "inflation nutter", but his euro-zone counterparts are the ones living up to the label...”
“Whatever the case, top government officials are concerned about rising prices and are loathe to use the word inflation, preferring instead to talk about "price dispersion.”
The Wall Street Journal: Argentine Consulting Firm Stops Publishing Inflation Estimates
“The number of mentions of the word "inflation" in leading U.K. newspapers is even higher now than it was during 2008's inflationary spike, when the consumer price index peaked at 5.2%, according to an analysis of the Dow Jones Factiva database.”
The Wall Street Journal: BOE Staggers Toward Perma-Inflation
“As it happens, though, over the long term inflation is gradually reducing the real value of the mortgage interest deduction (current downturn notwithstanding).”
““As it happens, though, over the long term inflation is gradually reducing the real value of the mortgage interest deduction (current downturn notwithstanding).””
“Perhaps because of Argentina's traumatic experience with hyperinflation in 1989, administration officials almost never use the word "inflation," preferring instead phrases like "price dispersion.”
The Wall Street Journal: IMF to Push Argentina for New Price Index
“Long term inflation is never good for the holders of capital.”
Matthew Yglesias » What a Difference a Fed Board Member Makes
“Higher inflation is a way to push "real," or inflation-adjusted, interest rates down.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘inflation’.
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Headlines & Newsmakers
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A Swelling
Nouns meaning a swelling
distention, distension, intumescence, tumor, inflation, hypertrophy, tuber, tubercle, tuberculum, tuberosity, gibbosity, apophysis and 1 more...
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ECON - macroeconomic indicators
aggregate deficit..., GDP at constant p..., GDP at current pr..., perceived inflation, VAT base, VAT rate, resilience of mar..., current income, recession, economic contraction, inflation, deflation and 28 more...
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Economists do it with models
arbitrage, behaviour, capital, dromography, embargo, fiscal, globalisation, hyperinflation, incentive, j-curve, keynesian, labour and 143 more...
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Criswell Predicts
Words describing a future that may or may not be entirely grounded in reality. Not to be used for predictive purposes. I do not have the gift of premonition. In fact, all these ideas come from popu...
flying car, space tourism, big brother, soylent green, brave new world, first contact, domestic android, skynet, new world order, collectivism, world peace, laser pistol and 93 more...
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FTL
Words listed first by me that don't belong in any other list.
licit, precis, mnemosyne, badinage, mariposa, lepidoptera, coruscation, poignant, meme, oxymoron, xenophobia, asterism and 128 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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Filthy Stinking Rich
Monetary units and other words that mean money. Other financial words are allowed too, as long as they're principally about money. Get it, principally? I kill me.
money, cash, dough, loot, wad, stack, booty, capital, nest egg, treasure, banknote, net and 168 more...
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praveen kumar
hi, tradition, description, tolerate, embarrassment, organisational, although, contemporary, contender, intimidation, poverty, groom and 53 more...
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TOEFL
Words for TOEFL to remember.
corrode, expeditiously, convey, permeate, recede, animism, deify, ecclesiastical, exalt, pious, aggravate, decrepit and 32 more...
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APUSH
Words I looked up for AP US History
schism, excommunicate, underpin, leery, guileless, parsimony, pudendum, vara, temerity, inflation
Tweets
Looking for tweets for inflation.
michaelt42 the cost of air in the tires (Annie Proulx, The Shipping News). Mar 4, 2012
oroboros Daffynition: cutting money in half without damaging the paper. Jan 6, 2007