inflation
/ɪnˈfleɪ.ʃən/ nom B2En français : inflation
- An act, instance of, or state of expansion or increase in size, especially by injection of a gas or liquid. · The inflation of the balloon took five hours.
- An increase in the quantity of money, leading to a devaluation of existing money, adjusted for by way of higher nominal values. · Due to inflation, the monthly gym fee is rising by 10% from January.
- Undue expansion or increase, as of academic grades.
- An extremely rapid expansion of the universe, theorized to have occurred very shortly after the Big Bang.
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