Usually means: Prices rise, wages chase, cyclically.
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General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. inflationary spiral: Merriam-Webster
  2. inflationary spiral: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. inflationary spiral: Collins English Dictionary
  4. inflationary spiral: Vocabulary.com
  5. inflationary spiral: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. inflationary spiral: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  7. inflationary spiral: Dictionary.com
  8. Inflationary spiral: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. inflationary spiral: Rhymezone
  10. inflationary spiral: FreeDictionary.org
  11. inflationary spiral: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. inflationary spiral: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. inflationary spiral: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  14. inflationary spiral: Wiktionary

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Inflationary Spiral: Inflation Glossary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (inflationary spiral)

▸ noun:  (economics) A pattern of economic inflation in which higher wages lead to higher prices, which lead to higher wages, and so on.

Similar:
wage-push inflation, wage drift, inflation, second-round effect, demand-pull inflation, greedflation, greenflation, agflation, foodflation, core inflation, more...

Opposite:
deflationary spiral, disinflation, price deflation

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Similar:
wage-push inflation, wage drift, inflation, second-round effect, demand-pull inflation, greedflation, greenflation, agflation, foodflation, core inflation, more...

Opposite:
deflationary spiral, disinflation, price deflation



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