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inflation

inf·la·tion

UK/ɪnˈfleɪ.ʃn̩/ US/ɪnˈfleɪ.ʃən/ fairly common

noun

1.

a general and progressive increase in prices

  • “in inflation everything gets more valuable except money”
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2.

(cosmology) a brief exponential expansion of the universe (faster than the speed of light) postulated to have occurred shortly after the big bang

3.
4.

the act of filling something with air

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Origin

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.

Phrases

  • blueberry inflation
  • bottleneck inflation
  • core inflation
  • cost-push inflation
  • credential inflation
  • demand-pull inflation
  • grade inflation
  • headline inflation

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