inflation
/ษชnหfleษชสษn/IPA: /IH0 N F L EY1 SH AH0 N/
noun
- 1
An act, instance of, or state of expansion or increase in size, especially by injection of a gas.
โThe inflation of the balloon took five hours.โ
- 2
An increase in the general level of prices or in the cost of living.
- 3
A decline in the value of money.
- 4
An increase in the quantity of money, leading to a devaluation of existing money.
- 5
Undue expansion or increase, as of academic grades.
- 6
An extremely rapid expansion of the universe, theorised to have occurred very shortly after the big bang.
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