Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɪnˈfleɪʃən/
inflation (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 general level of prices or in the cost of living.
- (economics) A decline in the value of money.
- (economics) An increase in the quantity of money, leading to a devaluation of existing money.
- Undue expansion or increase, as of academic grades.
- (cosmology) An extremely rapid expansion of the universe, theorised to have occurred very shortly after the big bang.
- French: inflation
- German: Aufblasen, Aufblähung, Inflation
- Portuguese: inflamento
- Russian: надува́ние
- Spanish: inflación
- French: inflation
- German: Inflation, Preissteigerung
- Italian: inflazione
- Portuguese: inflação
- Russian: инфля́ция
- Spanish: inflación
- German: inflationäre Geldvermehrung
- German: Geldentwertung
- German: Schwemme
- Russian: расшире́ние
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