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Noun: inflation in'fleyshun- A general and progressive increase in prices
"in inflation everything gets more valuable except money"
- rising prices - (cosmology) a brief exponential expansion of the universe (faster than the speed of light) postulated to have occurred shortly after the big bang
- Lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
- ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, puffiness, splashiness - The act of filling something with air
Derived forms: inflations See also: inflate, inflationary Type of: blowup, detonation, economic process, enlargement, expansion, explosion, inelegance Antonym: deflation, disinflation Encyclopedia: Inflation |