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Word: inflation
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Meaning:
Noun:
- An act, instance of, or state of expansion or increase in size, especially by injection of a gas.
- cosmology An extremely rapid expansion of the universe, theorised to have occurred very shortly after the big bang.
- economics A decline in the value of money.
- economics An increase in the general level of prices or in the cost of living.
- economics An increase in the quantity of money, leading to a devaluation of existing money.
- Undue expansion or increase, as of academic grades.
Source: Wiktionary
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