English Dictionary

inflation

/ɪnˈfleɪʃən/

noun

An act, instance of, or state of expansion or increase in size, especially by injection of a gas. / (economics) An increase in the quantity of money, leading to a devaluation of existing money.

The inflation rate has been steadily increasing over the past year.

意味（1）

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

The inflation of the balloon took five hours.

意味（2）

(economics) An increase in the quantity of money, leading to a devaluation of existing money.

意味（3）

(economics) An increase in the general level of prices or in the cost of living.

Due to inflation, the monthly gym fee is rising by 10% from January.

意味（4）

(economics) A decline in the value of money.

意味（5）

Undue expansion or increase, as of academic grades.

意味（6）

(cosmology) An extremely rapid expansion of the universe, theorized to have occurred very shortly after the Big Bang.