inflation
See also: Inflation
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 |