anti-inflation

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English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From anti- +‎ inflation.

Adjective

anti-inflation (comparative more anti-inflation, superlative most anti-inflation)

  1. That counteracts inflation.
    • 1996, Robert J. Donovan, Conflict and Crisis: The Presidency of Harry S. Truman, 1945-1948:
      During the hearings Snyder got into a dispute with Marriner Eccles, head of the Federal Reserve, opposing an antiinflation plan Eccles had devised — with unfortunate consequences for Eccles, as it turned out.

Usage notes

  • anti-inflation is several times more common than antiinflation in print.[1] GPO manual recommends using a hyphen to avoid doubling a vowel except after short prefixes.[2]

References

  1. ^ (antiinflation*6),anti-inflation at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
  2. ^ 6. Compounding Rules in U.S. Government Printing Office Style Manual, govinfo.gov