inflation
Nouns
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(n) a general and progressive increase in prices
- in inflation everything gets more valuable except money
- (n) (cosmology) a brief exponential expansion of the universe (faster than the speed of light) postulated to have occurred shortly after the big bang
- (n) lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, splashiness, ostentation, puffiness,
- (n) the act of filling something with air