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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.]

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"

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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