| rising prices 
 
 a general and progressive increase in prices
 - in inflation everything gets more valuable except money
 • Syn:
 inflation
 • Ant:
 deflation (for: inflation), disinflation (for: inflation)
 • Derivationally related forms:
 inflationary (for: inflation), inflate (for: inflation)
 • Hypernyms:
 economic process
 • Hyponyms:
 cost-pull inflation, demand-pull inflation, reflation, stagflation
 
 
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