inflation

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English

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Etymology

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.

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Noun

inflation (countable and uncountable, plural inflations)

  1. An act, instance of, or state of expansion or increase in size, especially by injection of a gas or liquid.
    The inflation of the balloon took five hours.
  2. (economics) An increase in the quantity of money, leading to a devaluation of existing money.
  3. (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.
  4. (economics) A decline in the value of money.
  5. Undue expansion or increase, as of academic grades.
  6. (cosmology) An extremely rapid expansion of the universe, theorized to have occurred very shortly after the Big Bang.[1]

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  1. ^ Burgess & Quevedo, "The Great Cosmic Roller-Coaster Ride", Scientific American, November 2007, p. 57.

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Pronunciation

Noun

inflation c (singular definite inflationen, plural indefinite inflationer)

  1. (economics) inflation

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French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French inflation, borrowed from Latin īnflātiōnem. Cf. also the dialectal enflaison, which may be of popular origin.

Pronunciation

Noun

inflation f (plural inflations)

  1. (economics) inflation
    Antonym: déflation

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Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin īnflātiō.

Noun

inflation oblique singularf (oblique plural inflations, nominative singular inflation, nominative plural inflations)

  1. (medicine) swelling

Descendants

  • English: inflation
  • French: inflation

Swedish

Noun

inflation c

  1. (economics) inflation
    Antonym: deflation
  2. (figuratively) inflation (of academic grades)
    betygsinflation
    grade inflation

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