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INFLATION

Definition:

1. [noun] a general and progressive increase in prices; "in inflation everything gets more valuable except money"
   Synonyms: rising prices
   
   
2. [noun] (cosmology) a brief exponential expansion of the universe (faster than the speed of light) postulated to have occurred shortly after the big bang
   
   
3. [noun] lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
   Synonyms: ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, splashiness
   
   
4. [noun] the act of filling something with air
   
   

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Related Words:

• cost-pull inflation
• demand-pull inflation
• inflationary spiral
• reflation
• stagflation

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