Usually means: Decrease in general price levels.
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  1. deflation: Merriam-Webster
  2. deflation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. deflation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. deflation: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. Deflation, deflation: Wordnik
  7. deflation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. deflation: Wiktionary
  9. deflation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. deflation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. deflation: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. deflation: Dictionary.com
  13. Deflation (disambiguation), Deflation (economics), Deflation (film), Deflation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. deflation: Rhymezone
  15. deflation: FreeDictionary.org
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  18. deflation: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  2. deflation: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
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  4. DEFLATION: Accounting Glossary
  5. Deflation: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  6. Deflation: Moneyterms
  7. Deflation: Monetary History
  8. Deflation: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
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  10. Deflation: Inflation Glossary
  11. Deflation: Investopedia
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  14. Deflation (data), Deflation (data compression), Deflation (economics), deflation: Legal dictionary
  15. Deflation (economics), Deflation: Financial dictionary
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Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Deflation (data), Deflation (data compression), Deflation (economics), deflation: Encyclopedia

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  1. deflation: Medical dictionary

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Science (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. deflation: Dictionary of Geology

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  1. Deflation: Urban Dictionary

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  3. deflation: Canadian Soil Information System

(Note: See deflationary as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  An act or instance of deflating.
noun:  (economics) A decrease in the general price level, that is, in the nominal cost of goods and services as well as wages.
noun:  (economics, euphemistic) An economic contraction.
noun:  (geology) The removal of soil and other loose material from the ground (or another surface) by wind, leaving it exposed to erosion.

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