inflation 音标拼音: [ɪnfl'eʃən]
n . 充气,膨胀;通货膨胀
充气,膨胀;通货膨胀
inflation n 1 :
a general and progressive increase in prices ; "
in inflation everything gets more valuable except money " [
synonym :
{
inflation }, {
rising prices }] [
ant : {
deflation },
{
disinflation }]
2 : (
cosmology )
a brief exponential expansion of the universe (
faster than the speed of light )
postulated to have occurred shortly after the big bang 3 :
lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity [
synonym : {
ostentation }, {
ostentatiousness },
{
pomposity }, {
pompousness }, {
pretentiousness }, {
puffiness },
{
splashiness }, {
inflation }]
4 :
the act of filling something with air [
ant : {
deflation }]
Inflation \
In *
fla "
tion \,
n . [
L .
inflatio :
cf .
F .
inflation .]
1 .
The act or process of inflating ,
or the state of being inflated ,
as with air or gas ;
distention ;
expansion ;
enlargement . --
Boyle .
[
1913 Webster ]
2 .
The state of being puffed up ,
as with pride ;
conceit ;
vanity . --
B .
Jonson .
[
1913 Webster ]
3 .
Persistent expansion or increase in the general level of prices ,
usually caused by overissue of currency ,
and resulting in a reduced value of the currency .
It is contrasted with {
deflation },
and is when it occurs to a very high degree is called {
hyperinflation }. [
U .
S .]
[
1913 Webster PJC ]
228 Moby Thesaurus words for "
inflation ":
Barnumism ,
access ,
accession ,
accretion ,
accrual ,
accruement ,
accumulation ,
addition ,
advance ,
affectation ,
aggrandizement ,
amplification ,
appreciation ,
ascent ,
augmentation ,
ballooning ,
ballyhoo ,
bedizenment ,
big price tag ,
big talk ,
bloat ,
bloatedness ,
bloating ,
blowing up ,
boom ,
boost ,
bottom price ,
breaking point ,
broadening ,
buildup ,
burlesque ,
business index ,
caricature ,
ceiling ,
ceiling price ,
command of language ,
consumer price index ,
convolution ,
cost -
of -
living index ,
crescendo ,
demand curve ,
development ,
diastole ,
dilatation ,
dilation ,
distension ,
dropsy ,
edema ,
elevation ,
enhancement ,
enlargement ,
exaggerating ,
exaggeration ,
excess ,
exorbitance ,
expansion ,
expression of ideas ,
extension ,
extortionate price ,
extravagance ,
extreme ,
extreme tension ,
famine price ,
fancy price ,
fashion ,
feeling for words ,
flashiness ,
flatulence ,
flatulency ,
flatus ,
flood ,
floor ,
floor price ,
form of speech ,
fulsomeness ,
gain ,
garishness ,
gassiness ,
gaudiness ,
good price ,
grace of expression ,
grandiloquence ,
grandioseness ,
grandiosity ,
greatening ,
growth ,
gush ,
heightening ,
high price ,
high -
flown diction ,
hike ,
hot economy ,
huckstering ,
hyperbole ,
hyperbolism ,
increase ,
increment ,
inflatedness ,
inflationary gap ,
inflationary pressure ,
inflationary prices ,
inflationary spiral ,
inordinacy ,
intumescence ,
jump ,
leap ,
lexiphanicism ,
literary style ,
loftiness ,
luridness ,
luxury price ,
magnification ,
magniloquence ,
manner ,
manner of speaking ,
mannerism ,
mere rhetoric ,
meretriciousness ,
meteorism ,
mode ,
mode of expression ,
mounting ,
multiplication ,
orotundity ,
ostentation ,
ostentatious complexity ,
overdistension ,
overdrawing ,
overemphasis ,
overestimation ,
overexpansion ,
overextension ,
overkill ,
overstatement ,
overstrain ,
overstraining ,
overstretching ,
peculiarity ,
personal style ,
platitudinous ponderosity ,
polysyllabic profundity ,
pomposity ,
pompous prolixity ,
pompousness ,
pontificality ,
pontification ,
pretension ,
pretentiousness ,
pretty penny ,
price ceiling ,
price index ,
price level ,
prodigality ,
productiveness ,
profuseness ,
proliferation ,
prose run mad ,
puff ,
puffery ,
puffiness ,
puffing ,
puffing up ,
rack rent ,
raise ,
rhetoric ,
rhetoricalness ,
rise ,
rising prices ,
scarcity price ,
self -
importance ,
sensationalism ,
sense of language ,
sententiousness ,
showiness ,
snapping point ,
snowballing ,
soaring costs ,
spiraling prices ,
spread ,
stiff price ,
stiltedness ,
strain ,
straining ,
stretch ,
stretching ,
stuffiness ,
style ,
stylistic analysis ,
stylistics ,
superlative ,
surge ,
swell ,
swellage ,
swelling ,
swelling utterance ,
swollen phrase ,
swollenness ,
tall talk ,
tension ,
the grand style ,
the plain style ,
the sublime ,
top price ,
tortuosity ,
tortuousness ,
touting ,
travesty ,
trick ,
tumefaction ,
tumescence ,
tumidity ,
tumidness ,
turgescence ,
turgidity ,
turgidness ,
tympanism ,
tympany ,
up ,
upping ,
upsurge ,
upswing ,
uptrend ,
upturn ,
vein ,
waxing ,
way ,
widening ,
windiness
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Current U. S. Inflation Rates (2000-2026) CPI Home : U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Inflation - Wikipedia Inflation: What It Is and How to Control Inflation Rates Inflation cooled in November to 2. 7%, but economists say to take it . . . Inflation falls to 2. 7% as slower housing and food increases offset a . . . Fed Beige Book finds inflation surging across most districts on energy . . . Latest Numbers : U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Inflation Shows No Sign of Letting Up, Rising 3. 8% in April on Oil . . . Rising prices take center stage as Feds preferred inflation measure . . .