B2noun · countable / uncountable · common

inflation

in·fla·tion

inflation · inflations

інфляція, надування

инфляция, расширение, раздувание, надувание

Inflation, Geldentwertung, Aufblasen, Schwemme

An act, instance of, or state of expansion or increase in size, especially by…An act, instance of, or state of expansion or increase in size, especially by injection of a gas or liquid.

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UK/ɪnˈfleɪ.ʃn̩/US/ɪnˈfleɪ.ʃən/

» The inflation issue split the party.

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Meaning

4 senses

(countable, uncountable)An act, instance of, or state of expansion or increase in size, especially by injection of a gas or liquid.
The inflation of the balloon took five hours.
(countable, uncountable)An increase in the quantity of money, leading to a devaluation of existing money, adjusted for by way of higher nominal values.
Due to inflation, the monthly gym fee is rising by 10% from January.
Inflation, Geldentwertung
инфля́цияinfljácija
інфля́ціяinfljácija
(countable, uncountable)Undue expansion or increase, as of academic grades.
Aufblasen, Aufblähung, Inflation
надува́ниеnaduvánije, вздува́ниеvzduvánije, вспу́чиваниеvspúčivanije
надува́нняnaduvánnja
(countable, uncountable)An extremely rapid expansion of the universe, theorized to have occurred very shortly after the Big Bang.
Inflation
расшире́ниеrasširénije
(cosmology) a brief exponential expansion of the universe (faster than the speed of light) postulated to have occurred shortly after the big bang

Examples

145 sentences

The inflation issue split the party.
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The rate of inflation is slowing down.
ruТемпы инфляции замедляются. — odexed
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Is your salary keeping up with inflation?
ruТвоя зарплата растёт вместе с инфляцией? — Lenin_1917
deHält dein Gehalt mit der Inflation Schritt? — raggione
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His salary can't keep pace with inflation.
ruЕго зарплата не поспевает за инфляцией. — Balamax
deSein Gehalt kann mit der Inflation nicht Schritt halten. — Tamy
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It's hard to keep up with inflation.
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Translations

9 languages

Українська

By meaning 2

increase in the quantity of money, leading to a devaluation of existing money and increase in the general nominal level of prices or in the cost of living:

expansion or increase in size:

Русский

By meaning 3

increase in the quantity of money, leading to a devaluation of existing money and increase in the general nominal level of prices or in the cost of living:

expansion or increase in size:

inflation of the universe:

Deutsch

By meaning 3

increase in the quantity of money, leading to a devaluation of existing money and increase in the general nominal level of prices or in the cost of living:

expansion or increase in size:

undue expansion or increase, as of academic grades:

Origin

From Middle English, borrowed from Old French inflation (“swelling”), from Latin īnflātiō

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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Forms

plural: inflations

Singular	inflation
Plural	inflations

regular

Synonyms

8 synonyms

Close in meaning

a general and progressive increase in prices:rising prices
lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity:ostentation ostentatiousness pomposity pompousness pretentiousness puffiness splashiness