anti-inflationary

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English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

anti- +‎ inflationary

Adjective[edit]

anti-inflationary (comparative more anti-inflationary, superlative most anti-inflationary)

  1. (economics) Intended to counteract or reverse inflation or its effects.
    A number of anti-inflationary policies were discussed by the Fed.

Usage notes[edit]

  • anti-inflationary is several times more common than antiinflationary in print.[1] GPO manual recommends using a hyphen to avoid doubling a vowel except after short prefixes.[2]

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References[edit]

  1. ^ (antiinflationary *6),anti-inflationary at Google Ngram Viewer
  2. ^ 6. Compounding Rules in U.S. Government Printing Office Style Manual, govinfo.gov
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