| Meaning | A general and progressive increase / increase in prices / prices. |
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| Example | "in inflation everything gets more valuable except money" |
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| Synonym | rising prices |
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| Narrower | cost-pull inflation | inflation caused by an increase / increase in the costs of production |
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| demand-pull inflation | inflation caused by an increase / increase / increase / increase in demand or in the supply of money |
| reflation | inflation of currency after a period of deflation |
| stagflation | A period of slow economic growth and high unemployment (stagnation) while prices / prices rise (inflation) |
| Broader | economic process | Any process affecting the production and development and management of material wealth |
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| Opposite | deflation | A contraction of economic activity resulting in a decline of prices / prices |
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| disinflation | A reduction of prices / prices intended to improve the balance of payments |
| Spanish | inflación |
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| Catalan | inflació |
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| Adjectives | inflationary | associated with or tending to cause increases / increases in inflation |
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| Verbs | inflate | increase the amount or availability of, creating a rise in value |
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| inflate | cause prices to rise by increasing the available currency or credit |
