inflation

CEFRC1

/ɪnˈfleɪ.ʃən/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A general rise in prices that reduces money's buying power.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    An increase in the quantity of money, leading to a devaluation of existing money, adjusted for by way of higher nominal values.

Examples

  • Does depreciation of the yen give rise to inflation?

  • The cost of borrowing has been excluded from the inflation figures.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. Undue expansion or increase, as of academic grades.

  2. An act, instance of, or state of expansion or increase in size, especially by injection of a gas or liquid.

  3. An extremely rapid expansion of the universe, theorized to have occurred very shortly after the Big Bang.

More examples

In context

  • The policy will only accelerate inflation.

  • Due to inflation, the monthly gym fee is rising by 10% from January.

  • The inflation of the balloon took five hours.

Antonyms

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Origin

noun

From 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.