Inflation Definition & Meaning
inflation
- noun
- a general and progressive increase in prices; "in inflation everything gets more valuable except money"
- (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
- the act of filling something with air
"Inflation" in song lyrics
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"Currency flooding, so they won't stop inflation"
Benefit — The United Stage of America -
"Across the nation a lost of patience is cost inflation"
Blackalicious f/ Floetry — Automatique -
"Price of your life is goin up it aint inflation"
Dead Prez — Assassination
Words that rhyme with inflation
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- What does inflation mean?
- a general and progressive increase in prices; "in inflation everything gets more valuable except money" (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 the act of filling something with air
- What part of speech is inflation?
- Inflation is a noun.
- How many definitions does inflation have?
- Inflation has 4 definitions across 1 part of speech (noun).