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Word: inflation (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • An act, instance of, or state of expansion or increase in size, especially by injection of a gas.
  • cosmology An extremely rapid expansion of the universe, theorised to have occurred very shortly after the big bang.
  • economics A decline in the value of money.
  • economics An increase in the general level of prices or in the cost of living.
  • economics An increase in the quantity of money, leading to a devaluation of existing money.
  • Undue expansion or increase, as of academic grades.

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