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(economics) The theory that excessively low unemployment accelerates inflation.
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(informal) An increase in the price of food crops, especially due to increased demand, and to diversification into the production of biomass
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(economics) Intended to counteract or reverse inflation or its effects.
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(economics) Preventing or countering deflation.
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(economics) Preventing or countering deflation.
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(finance) Preventing share dilution.
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(economics) Serving to counter a financial recession.
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(economics) Countering or preventing a slump.
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(informal, derogatory, humorous) The intense inflation or stagflation in the United States experienced during the Joe Biden presidency.
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(taxation) The move towards increased taxation when an inflation adjustment to a wage or salary pushes a taxpayer into a higher tax bracket (or, in a progressive taxation regime, further into a bracket).
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(economics) The hypothesis that poorer economies will tend to have faster rates of economic growth than richer ones.
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(economics) Inflation excluding the increase or decrease of prices in some sectors (usually food and energy).
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(economics) Inflation caused by substantial increases in the cost of goods or services where no suitable alternative is available.
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Synonym of anti-inflationary
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(economics) Counteracting inflation.
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(economics) An exchange rate regime that allows depreciation or appreciation to happen gradually.
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(economics) A decrease in the general price level, that is, in the nominal cost of goods and services as well as wages.
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(economics) A factor applied to economic statistics in order to counter the effect of inflation.
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(economics) Inflation arising when aggregate demand in an economy outpaces aggregate supply. It involves inflation rising as real gross domestic product rises and unemployment falls, as the economy moves along the Phillips curve.
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More specifically, nuclear deterrence: discouraging nuclear attack through the threat of nuclear retaliation.
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(economics) An increase in the value derived from the natural-resources sector of the economy, leading to a rise in the valuation of the currency increasingly based on the natural-resources sector, and thus causing a deterioration in the manufacturing sector by making the manufactured goods less competitive in the export marketplace compared to those manufactured by economies with lower valuation currencies, because they are relatively more expensive.
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The continuous rise in the price of food which is higher than the general inflation level.
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(economics, neologism) Price gouging by corporations during an inflationary period, especially when the underlying cost of production has not risen accordingly.
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A movement advocating for the inflation of the US currency.
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(economics) A rise in energy prices as a result of shifting from fossil fuels to sustainable energy sources.
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(economics) Having very high levels of inflation.
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(transitive, economics) To stimulate or boost (the economy) by the injection of cash, such as with quantitative easing
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The adjustment of an economic variable (such as a salary) according to an index (such as that of inflation).
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(economics) A cause of inflation.
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(economics) An increase in the quantity of money, leading to a devaluation of existing money.
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Causing or liable to cause inflation.
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(economics) A pattern of economic inflation in which higher wages lead to higher prices, which lead to higher wages, and so on.
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(economics) A policy or belief that encourages inflation.
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(obsolete) Of an inflating quality or tendency.
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(rare) Relating to, or causing, inflation; inflationary.
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(economy) persistent stagnation and deflation
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(economics) The theory that consumers are more willing to buy less costly luxury goods during economic crises.
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(often humorous, neologism) The late-2000s world economic recession.
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Alternative letter-case form of mudflation [(economics, informal) The gradual decrease in the value of existing virtual goods in a massively multiplayer online game as new goods are introduced.]
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(economics) A single-equation empirical model describing a historical inverse relationship between rates of unemployment and corresponding rates of inflation that result within an economy.
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(economics) To engage in deficit spending .
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Causing or relating to an economic recession.
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That leads to reinflation
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(economics) The principle of creative destruction; the obsolescence of existing products due to the introduction of new products.
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(game development) One or several systems that remove currency from the game's economy, thus controlling or preventing inflation.
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(economics, informal, neologism) The practice of reducing the quality of products while continuing to market them at the same price.
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(economics) Inflation accompanied by a slump in output and employment.
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Relating to slumpflation.
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(economics) Inflation accompanied by stagnant growth, unemployment or recession.
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(uncountable, dated drug slang) Initialism of serenity, tranquility and peace, a former street name for DOM. [The state of being serene; calmness; peacefulness.]
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(economics) hyperinflation
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(economics) A very high rate of inflation
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Relating to superinflation.
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(sustainability) Reduce, reuse and recycle.
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(economics) The situation where rising wages lead to an increase in the cost of goods.
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