Inflation — meaning in English
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English meaning
- inflation noun A general and sustained rise in prices, which reduces the purchasing power of money.
Senses
Inflation is used for these senses in English:
- inflation An act, instance of, or state of expansion or increase in size, especially by injection of a gas or liquid.
- 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
- noun A general and sustained rise in prices, which reduces the purchasing power of money.
- noun The act of filling something with air or gas so it expands.
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