Definizione monolingua

inflation

inflation (plural inflations)

1. 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.

2. (economics) An increase in the general level of prices or in the cost of living.
3. (economics) A decline in the value of money.
4. (economics) An increase in the quantity of money, leading to a devaluation of existing money.
5. Undue expansion or increase, as of academic grades.
6. (cosmology) An extremely rapid expansion of the universe, theorised to have occurred very shortly after the big bang.

Definizione dizionario inflation

	inflazione
	increase in prices
	The expansion in the money supply beyond the increase in available goods and services.
	The overall price movement (generally upward) of goods and services in an economy.

Altri significati:

(economics) An increase in the general level of prices or in the cost of living.

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) An increase in the quantity of money, leading to a devaluation of existing money.

expansion or increase in size

(economics) A decline in the value of money.

Undue expansion or increase, as of academic grades.

inflation of the universe

inflation (of budget, claim, etc.)