Defenition of the word inflation
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Defenition of the word inflation
- The expansion in the money supply beyond the increase in available goods and services.
- a act of filling something with air
- a general and progressive increase in prices; "in inflation everything gets more valuable except money"
- the act of filling something with air
- lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
- (cosmology) a brief exponential expansion of the universe (faster than the speed of light) postulated to have occurred shortly after the big bang
- a general and progressive increase in prices
Synonyms for the word inflation
Hyponyms for the word inflation
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- cost-pull inflation
- demand-pull inflation
- inflationary spiral
- reflation
- stagflation
Hypernyms for the word inflation
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- blowup
- detonation
- economic process
- enlargement
- expansion
- explosion
- inelegance
Antonyms for the word inflation
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