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laajeneminen — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • escalation noun A rapid increase in the size, intensity, or seriousness of something.
  • inflation noun A general and sustained rise in prices, which reduces the purchasing power of money.

Senses

laajeneminen is used for these senses in English:

  • escalation A deliberate or premeditated increase in the violence or geographic scope of a conflict.
  • inflation (cosmology) An extremely rapid expansion of the universe, theorized to have occurred very shortly after the Big Bang.

escalation — full definition

  1. noun A rapid increase in the size, intensity, or seriousness of something.
  2. noun The act of passing a problem to someone with greater authority to resolve it.

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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