inflation
See also: Inflation
English
Etymology
From Middle English, borrowed from Old French inflation (“swelling”), from Latin īnflātiō (“expansion", "blowing up”), from īnflātus, the perfect passive participle of īnflō (“blow into, expand”), from in (“into”) + flō (“blow”). By surface analysis, inflate + -ion.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɪnˈfleɪʃən/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun
inflation (countable and uncountable, plural inflations)
- An act, instance of, or state of expansion or increase in size, especially by injection of a gas.
- The inflation of the balloon took five hours.
- (economics) An increase in the quantity of money, leading to a devaluation of existing money.
- (economics) An increase in the general level of prices or in the cost of living.
- Due to inflation, the monthly gym fee is rising by 10% from January.
- (economics) A decline in the value of money.
- Undue expansion or increase, as of academic grades.
- (cosmology) An extremely rapid expansion of the universe, theorized to have occurred very shortly after the Big Bang.
Antonyms
Derived terms
- anti-inflation
- bottleneck inflation
- core inflation
- cost-push inflation
- counter-inflation
- credential inflation
- demand-pull inflation
- disinflation
- grade inflation
- greedflation
- greenflation
- hyperinflation
- inflatino
- Inflation
- inflationary
- inflationproof
- inflaton
- reinflation
- shrinkflation
- skimpflation
- stagflation
- superinflation
- taxonomic inflation
- tipflation
- wage-push inflation
Related terms
Translations
expansion or increase in size
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increase in the general level of prices or in the cost of living
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increase in the quantity of money, leading to a devaluation of existing money
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decline in the value of money
References
- (cosmology) Burgess & Quevedo, "The Great Cosmic Roller-Coaster Ride", Scientific American, November 2007, pg. 57.
Anagrams
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /enflaˈɕoˀn/
Noun
inflation c (singular definite inflationen, plural indefinite inflationer)
Declension
Declension of inflation
| common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | inflation | inflationen | inflationer | inflationerne |
| genitive | inflations | inflationens | inflationers | inflationernes |
Further reading
French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French inflation, borrowed from Latin īnflātiōnem. Cf. also the dialectal enflaison, which may be of popular origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛ̃.fla.sjɔ̃/
Audio (file) - Homophone: inflations
Further reading
- “inflation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old French
Noun
inflation oblique singular, f (oblique plural inflations, nominative singular inflation, nominative plural inflations)
Swedish
Noun
inflation c
Declension
| Declension of inflation | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | inflation | inflationen | inflationer | inflationerna |
| Genitive | inflations | inflationens | inflationers | inflationernas |
Derived terms
See also
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