Engelsk navneord: inflation |
1. | inflation (om proces) a general and progressive increase in prices |
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| Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | In inflation everything gets more valuable except money.
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| Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | rising prices |
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| Mindre specifikke termer | economic process |
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| Mere specifikke termer | cost-pull inflation, demand-pull inflation, reflation, stagflation |
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| Termer med modsat betydning (antonymer) | disinflation, deflation |
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2. | inflation (om begivenhed) (cosmology) a brief exponential expansion of the universe (faster than the speed of light) postulated to have occurred shortly after the big bang |
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| Mindre specifikke termer | blowup, detonation, explosion |
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| Overordnet emneområde | cosmogeny, cosmogony, cosmology |
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3. | inflation (om egenskab) lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity |
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| Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, puffiness, splashiness |
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| Mindre specifikke termer | inelegance |
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4. | inflation (om handling) the act of filling something with air |
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| Mindre specifikke termer | enlargement, expansion |
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| Termer med modsat betydning (antonymer) | deflation |
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