inflation
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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[edit]
Noun[edit]
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[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
- 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[edit]
Translations[edit]
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
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inflation of the universe
References[edit]
- (cosmology) Burgess & Quevedo, "The Great Cosmic Roller-Coaster Ride", Scientific American, November 2007, pg. 57.
Anagrams[edit]
Danish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
inflation c (singular definite inflationen, plural indefinite inflationer)
Declension[edit]
Declension of inflation
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | inflation | inflationen | inflationer | inflationerne |
genitive | inflations | inflationens | inflationers | inflationernes |
Further reading[edit]
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Old French inflation, borrowed from Latin īnflātiōnem. Cf. also the dialectal enflaison, which may be of popular origin.
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /ɛ̃.fla.sjɔ̃/
Audio (file) - Homophone: inflations
Noun[edit]
inflation f (plural inflations)
Related terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “inflation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
inflation oblique singular, f (oblique plural inflations, nominative singular inflation, nominative plural inflations)
Descendants[edit]
Swedish[edit]
Noun[edit]
inflation c
- (economics) inflation
- Antonym: deflation
- (figuratively) inflation (of academic grades or the like)
- betygsinflation
- grade inflation
Declension[edit]
Declension of inflation | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | inflation | inflationen | inflationer | inflationerna |
Genitive | inflations | inflationens | inflationers | inflationernas |
Derived terms[edit]
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References[edit]
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