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Inflation

Inflation Meaning & Definition
Inflation Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Inflation?

[n] the act of filling something with air
[n] lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
[n] (cosmology) a brief exponential expansion of the universe (faster than the speed of light) postulated to have occurred shortly after the big bang
[n] a general and progressive increase in prices; "in inflation everything gets more valuable except money"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Inflation: ostentation | ostentatiousness | pomposity | pompousness | pretentiousness | rising prices | splashiness

Related Terms | Find terms related to Inflation: access | accession | accretion | accrual | accruement | accumulation | addition | advance | affectation | aggrandizement | amplification | appreciation | ascent | augmentation | ballooning | ballyhoo | Barnumism | bedizenment | big price tag | big talk | bloat | bloatedness | bloating | blowing up | boom | boost | bottom price | breaking point | broadening | buildup | burlesque | business index | caricature | ceiling | ceiling price | command of language | consumer price index | convolution | cost-of-living index | crescendo | demand curve | development | diastole | dilatation | dilation | distension | dropsy | edema | elevation | enhancement | enlargement | exaggerating | exaggeration | excess | exorbitance | expansion | expression of ideas | extension | extortionate price | extravagance | extreme | extreme tension | famine price | fancy price | fashion | feeling for words | flashiness | flatulence | flatulency | flatus | flood | floor | floor price | form of speech | fulsomeness | gain | garishness | gassiness | gaudiness | good price | grace of expression | grandiloquence | grandioseness | grandiosity | greatening | growth | gush | heightening | high price | high-flown diction | hike | hot economy | huckstering | hyperbole | hyperbolism | increase | increment | inflatedness | inflationary gap | inflationary pressure | inflationary prices | inflationary spiral | inordinacy | intumescence | jump | leap | lexiphanicism | literary style | loftiness | luridness | luxury price | magnification | magniloquence | manner | manner of speaking | mannerism | mere rhetoric | meretriciousness | meteorism | mode | mode of expression | mounting | multiplication | orotundity | ostentation | ostentatious complexity | overdistension | overdrawing | overemphasis | overestimation | overexpansion | overextension | overkill | overstatement | overstrain | overstraining | overstretching | peculiarity | personal style | platitudinous ponderosity | polysyllabic profundity | pomposity | pompous prolixity | pompousness | pontificality | pontification | pretension | pretentiousness | pretty penny | price ceiling | price index | price level | prodigality | productiveness | profuseness | proliferation | prose run mad | puff | puffery | puffiness | puffing | puffing up | rack rent | raise | rhetoric | rhetoricalness | rise | rising prices | scarcity price | self-importance | sensationalism | sense of language | sententiousness | showiness | snapping point | snowballing | soaring costs | spiraling prices | spread | stiff price | stiltedness | strain | straining | stretch | stretching | stuffiness | style | stylistic analysis | stylistics | superlative | surge | swell | swellage | swelling | swelling utterance | swollen phrase | swollenness | tall talk | tension | the grand style | the plain style | the sublime | top price | tortuosity | tortuousness | touting | travesty | trick | tumefaction | tumescence | tumidity | tumidness | turgescence | turgidity | turgidness | tympanism | tympany | up | upping | upsurge | upswing | uptrend | upturn | vein | waxing | way | widening | windiness

See Also | cost-pull inflation | demand-pull inflation | detonation | economic process | enlargement | expansion | explosion | inelegance | inflationary spiral | reflation | stagflation

Inflation In Webster's Dictionary

\In*fla"tion\, n. [L. inflatio: cf. F. inflation.] 1. The act or process of inflating, or the state of being inflated, as with air or gas; distention; expansion; enlargement. --Boyle. 2. The state of being puffed up, as with pride; conceit; vanity. --B. Jonson. 3. Undue expansion or increase, from overissue; -- said of currency. [U.S.]

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