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inflation

in·fla·tion [ in fláysh'n ]


noun 
Definition:
 
1. economics higher prices: an increase in the supply of currency or credit relative to the availability of goods and services, resulting in higher prices and a decrease in the purchasing power of money

2. being inflated: the act of inflating something, or the condition of being inflated

3. proud condition: the condition of being puffed up with pride

4. cosmology early expansion of universe: a period of rapidly accelerating expansion of the early universe after the big bang

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