inflation

[In*fla·tion]

Think of inflation as expansion, usually from being filled with air, like a balloon. This also refers to rising prices.

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The act or process of inflating, or the state of being inflated, as with air or gas; distention; expansion; enlargement.

Noun
the act of filling something with air

Noun
lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity

Noun
(cosmology) a brief exponential expansion of the universe (faster than the speed of light) postulated to have occurred shortly after the big bang

Noun
a general and progressive increase in prices; "in inflation everything gets more valuable except money"


n.
The act or process of inflating, or the state of being inflated, as with air or gas; distention; expansion; enlargement.

n.
The state of being puffed up, as with pride; conceit; vanity.

n.
Undue expansion or increase, from overissue; -- said of currency.


Inflation

In*fla"tion , n. [L. inflatio: cf. F. inflation.] 1. The act or process of inflating, or the state of being inflated, as with air or gas; distention; expansion; enlargement. Boyle. 2. The state of being puffed up, as with pride; conceit; vanity. B. Jonson. 3. Undue expansion or increase, from overissue; -- said of currency. [U.S.]

The act or process of inflating, or the state of being inflated, as with air or gas; distention; expansion; enlargement.

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Usage Examples

Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.

It has now been over 7 years since Congress last raised the minimum wage to its current level of $5.15 per hour. Since that last increase, Congress's failure to adjust the wage for inflation has reduced the purchasing power of the minimum wage to record low levels.

The Great Inflation of the 1970s destroyed faith in paper assets, because if you held a bond, suddenly the bond was worth much less money than it was before.

Inflation is taxation without legislation.

Our system of private health insurance that fails to provide coverage to so many of our citizens also contributes to the double-digit health care inflation that is making America less competitive in the global economy.

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Other Usage Examples

Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.

This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation.

Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.

Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.

I continue to believe that the American people have a love-hate relationship with inflation. They hate inflation but love everything that causes it.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

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