inflation

inflation
Synonyms and related words:
Barnumism, access, accession, accretion, accrual, accruement, accumulation, addition, advance, affectation, aggrandizement, amplification, appreciation, ascent, augmentation, ballooning, ballyhoo, bedizenment, big price tag, big talk, bloat, bloatedness, bloating, blowing up, boom, boost, bottom price, breaking point, broadening, buildup, burlesque, business index, caricature, ceiling, ceiling price, command of language, consumer price index, convolution, cost-of-living index, crescendo, demand curve, development, diastole, dilatation, dilation, distension, dropsy, edema, elevation, enhancement, enlargement, exaggerating, exaggeration, excess, exorbitance, expansion, expression of ideas, extension, extortionate price, extravagance, extreme, extreme tension, famine price, fancy price, fashion, feeling for words, flashiness, flatulence, flatulency, flatus, flood, floor, floor price, form of speech, fulsomeness, gain, garishness, gassiness, gaudiness, good price, grace of expression, grandiloquence, grandioseness, grandiosity, greatening, growth, gush, heightening, high price, high-flown diction, hike, hot economy, huckstering, hyperbole, hyperbolism, increase, increment, inflatedness, inflationary gap, inflationary pressure, inflationary prices, inflationary spiral, inordinacy, intumescence, jump, leap, lexiphanicism, literary style, loftiness, luridness, luxury price, magnification, magniloquence, manner, manner of speaking, mannerism, mere rhetoric, meretriciousness, meteorism, mode, mode of expression, mounting, multiplication, orotundity, ostentation, ostentatious complexity, overdistension, overdrawing, overemphasis, overestimation, overexpansion, overextension, overkill, overstatement, overstrain, overstraining, overstretching, peculiarity, personal style, platitudinous ponderosity, polysyllabic profundity, pomposity, pompous prolixity, pompousness, pontificality, pontification, pretension, pretentiousness, pretty penny, price ceiling, price index, price level, prodigality, productiveness, profuseness, proliferation, prose run mad, puff, puffery, puffiness, puffing, puffing up, rack rent, raise, rhetoric, rhetoricalness, rise, rising prices, scarcity price, self-importance, sensationalism, sense of language, sententiousness, showiness, snapping point, snowballing, soaring costs, spiraling prices, spread, stiff price, stiltedness, strain, straining, stretch, stretching, stuffiness, style, stylistic analysis, stylistics, superlative, surge, swell, swellage, swelling, swelling utterance, swollen phrase, swollenness, tall talk, tension, the grand style, the plain style, the sublime, top price, tortuosity, tortuousness, touting, travesty, trick, tumefaction, tumescence, tumidity, tumidness, turgescence, turgidity, turgidness, tympanism, tympany, up, upping, upsurge, upswing, uptrend, upturn, vein, waxing, way, widening, windiness

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  • Inflation — Inflation …   Deutsch Wörterbuch

  • INFLATION — Phénomène économique majeur de la période ouverte par la Seconde Guerre mondiale, multiforme par l’échelle (inflation rampante, hyperinflation), la durée (inflation courte, inflation longue) ou le lieu (pays industrialisés, pays en développement) …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • Inflation — Sf std. (19. Jh.) Entlehnung. Amerikanische Entlehnung von l. īnflātio ( ōnis) das Anschwellen , eigentlich das Sich Aufblasen , zu l. īnflāre hineinblasen, aufblasen , zu l. flāre blasen und l. in . Das Wort bezeichnet zunächst das Vergrößern… …   Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen sprache

  • inflation — I (decrease in value of currency) noun boost in prices, currency devaluation, decrease in purchasing power, high prices, hike in prices, jump in prices, price increase, substantial rise of prices, undue expansion of currency, upturn in prices II… …   Law dictionary

  • Inflation — In*fla tion, n. [L. inflatio: cf. F. inflation.] 1. The act or process of inflating, or the state of being inflated, as with air or gas; distention; expansion; enlargement. Boyle. [1913 Webster] 2. The state of being puffed up, as with pride;… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Inflation —   Inflation is a time of generally rising prices. See also Hyper Inflation …   International financial encyclopaedia

  • Inflation — (v. lat.), Aufblähung …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • Inflation — Inflation, lat. deutsch, Aufblähung …   Herders Conversations-Lexikon

  • inflation — mid 14c., swelling caused by gathering of wind in the body; flatulence; figuratively, outbursts of pride, from L. inflationem (nom. inflatio) a puffing up; flatulence, noun of action from pp. stem of inflare blow into, puff up, from in into (see… …   Etymology dictionary

  • Inflation — »Geldentwertung (durch starke Vermehrung der umlaufenden Geldmenge)«: Das Fremdwort wurde im 19. Jh. aus lat. inflatio »das Sichaufblasen; das Aufschwellen« entlehnt und zunächst nur als medizinischer Fachausdruck verwendet. Die moderne Bedeutung …   Das Herkunftswörterbuch

  • inflation — [n] increase, swelling aggrandizement, blowing up, boom, boost, buildup, distension, enhancement, enlargement, escalation, expansion, extension, hike, intensification, prosperity, puffiness, rise, spread, tumefaction; concepts 335,763,780 Ant.… …   New thesaurus

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