inflation

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A general rise in prices over time, which makes money worth less.

   Rising inflation made everyday groceries more expensive.

2. 2
   noun

   The act of filling something with air or gas.

   The inflation of the huge balloon took nearly an hour.

Common collocations

• inflation rate Noun + noun
• modest inflation Adjective + noun

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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