inflation
See also: Inflation
Englisch
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English, borrowed from Old French inflation (“swelling”), from Latin īnflātiō (“expansion", "blowing up”), from īnflātus, the perfect passive participle of īnflō (“blow into, expand”), from in (“into”) + flō (“blow”). By surface analysis, inflate + -ion.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ɪnˈfleɪʃən/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Nomen
editinflation (countable and uncountable, plural inflations)
- An act, instance of, or state of expansion or increase in size, especially by injection of a gas.
- The inflation of the balloon took five hours.
- (economics) An increase in the quantity of money, leading to a devaluation of existing money.
- (economics) An increase in the general level of prices or in the cost of living.
- Due to inflation, the monthly gym fee is rising by 10% from January.
- (economics) A decline in the value of money.
- Undue expansion or increase, as of academic grades.
- (cosmology) An extremely rapid expansion of the universe, theorized to have occurred very shortly after the Big Bang.
Antonyms
editDerived terms
edit- anti-inflation
- bottleneck inflation
- core inflation
- cost-push inflation
- counter-inflation
- credential inflation
- demand-pull inflation
- disinflation
- grade inflation
- greedflation
- greenflation
- hyperinflation
- inflatino
- Inflation
- inflationary
- inflationproof
- inflaton
- reinflation
- shrinkflation
- size inflation
- skimpflation
- stagflation
- superinflation
- taxonomic inflation
- tipflation
- wage-push inflation
- white inflation theory
Related terms
editTranslations
editexpansion or increase in size
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increase in the general level of prices or in the cost of living
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increase in the quantity of money, leading to a devaluation of existing money
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decline in the value of money
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inflation of the universe
References
edit- (cosmology) Burgess & Quevedo, "The Great Cosmic Roller-Coaster Ride", Scientific American, November 2007, pg. 57.
Anagrams
editDänisch
editPronunciation
editNomen
editinflation c (singular definite inflationen, plural indefinite inflationer)
Declension
editDeclension of inflation
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | inflation | inflationen | inflationer | inflationerne |
genitive | inflations | inflationens | inflationers | inflationernes |
Further reading
editFrench
editEtymology
editInherited from Old French inflation, borrowed from Latin īnflātiōnem. Cf. also the dialectal enflaison, which may be of popular origin.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ɛ̃.fla.sjɔ̃/
Audio: (file) - Homophone: inflations
Nomen
editinflation f (plural inflations)
Related terms
editFurther reading
edit- “inflation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old French
editEtymology
editNomen
editinflation oblique singular, f (oblique plural inflations, nominative singular inflation, nominative plural inflations)
Descendants
editSwedish
editNomen
editinflation c
- (economics) inflation
- Antonym: deflation
- (figuratively) inflation (of academic grades or the like)
- betygsinflation
- grade inflation
Declension
editDeclension of inflation | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | inflation | inflationen | inflationer | inflationerna |
Genitive | inflations | inflationens | inflationers | inflationernas |
Derived terms
editSee also
editReferences
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- English terms suffixed with -ion
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