inflation
Other forms: inflations
Think of inflation as expansion, usually from being filled with air, like a balloon. This also refers to rising prices.
Think of a balloon puffing up, getting fuller and fuller — that's inflation. The word has a bunch of related meanings. We can say people a little too full of themselves are suffering from inflation: they are full of hot air. When the cost of living is ballooning, that's economic inflation. When the universe was born in the big bang, there was a huge inflation, as matter spread out, creating galaxies, stars, and planets.
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the act of filling something with airantonyms:deflationthe act of letting the air out of somethingtype of:
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a general and progressive increase in prices“in inflation everything gets more valuable except money”synonyms: rising pricesantonyms:deflationa contraction of economic activity resulting in a decline of pricesdisinflationa reduction of prices intended to improve the balance of paymentstypes:cost-pull inflationinflation caused by an increase in the costs of productiondemand-pull inflationinflation caused by an increase in demand or in the supply of moneyreflationinflation of currency after a period of deflation; restore the system to a previous statestagflationa period of slow economic growth and high unemployment (stagnation) while prices rise (inflation)type of:economic processany process affecting the production and development and management of material wealth
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(cosmology) a brief exponential expansion of the universe (faster than the speed of light) postulated to have occurred shortly after the big bang
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lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanitysynonyms: ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, puffiness, splashinesstype of:inelegancethe quality of lacking refinement and good taste
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