Thesaurus: inflation

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1. n. The act or process of inflating, or the state of being inflated, as with air or gas; distention; expansion; enlargement.
2. n. The state of being puffed up, as with pride; conceit; vanity.
3. n. Undue expansion or increase, from overissue; -- said of currency.
4. n. a general and progressive increase in prices
5. n. (cosmology) a brief exponential expansion of the universe (faster than the speed of light) postulated to have occurred shortly after the big bang
6. n. lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
7. n. the act of filling something with air
8. n:100 n. a general and progressive increase in prices 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. the act of filling something with air