inflaatio — meaning in English

English meaning

• inflation noun A general and sustained rise in prices, which reduces the purchasing power of money.

Senses

inflaatio is used for these senses in English:

• inflation (economics) An increase in the quantity of money, leading to a devaluation of existing money, adjusted for by way of higher nominal values.
• inflation (cosmology) An extremely rapid expansion of the universe, theorized to have occurred very shortly after the Big Bang.

inflation — full definition

1. noun A general and sustained rise in prices, which reduces the purchasing power of money.
2. noun The act of filling something with air or gas so it expands.

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