Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Sluggish economic growth coupled with a high rate of inflation and unemployment.
Wiktionary
- n. economics Inflation accompanied by stagnant growth, unemployment or recession.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a period of slow economic growth and high unemployment (stagnation) while prices rise (inflation)
Etymologies
- Blend of stagnation and inflation (Wiktionary)
- stag(nation) + (in)flation. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“That's when the word stagflation was invented to describe a truly ugly combination of rising inflation and stunted growth...”
“The term stagflation is generally attributed to United Kingdom Chancellor of the Exchequer, Iain MacLeod in a speech to parliament in 1965.www. carlostmock.com”
“The term stagflation is used to describe the policy-challenging combination of a stagnating economy at a time of rising inflation.”
“The economic downturn has a lot of people throwing around the term stagflation, something we haven't heard for quite a while.”
“That's when the word stagflation was invented to describe a truly ugly combination of rising inflation and stunted growth.”
“That's when the word stagflation was invented to describe a truly ugly combination of rising inflation and stunted growth.”
“In the interim, welcome to long-term stagflation on the Japanese model.”
“Looming stagflation is bad, but at least the housing market was supposed to have bottomed out last year, according to Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson.”
“Hold them low until stagflation is in the air and a real estate bubble is floating”
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Tweets
Looking for tweets for stagflation.
reesetee Ah! Okay, got it. Nov 14, 2007
kewpid Yup. I meant 'here' as in when stagflation happens, not in Australia :P Nov 14, 2007
reesetee Kewpid, you're in Australia, right? Nov 14, 2007
kewpid I don't think it is possible to coin a word of enough scariness to describe what is happening in the economy here. Nov 14, 2007
kewpid The dubious honour of increasing inflation and unemployment, such as during the 1970s oil shocks. Sep 24, 2007