Usually means: General increase in prices, costs.
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We found 59 dictionaries that define the word inflation:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. inflation: Merriam-Webster
  2. inflation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. inflation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. inflation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. inflation: Vocabulary.com
  6. Inflation, inflation: Wordnik
  7. inflation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. inflation: Wiktionary
  9. inflation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. inflation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. inflation: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. inflation: Dictionary.com
  13. inflation: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. inflation: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Inflation (cosmology), Inflation (disambiguation), Inflation (economics), Inflation (physics), Inflation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Inflation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. inflation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. inflation: Rhymezone
  19. Inflation (f), inflation, inflation (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. inflation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. inflation: FreeDictionary.org
  22. inflation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. inflation: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. inflation: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  4. INFLATION: Accounting Glossary
  5. Inflation: bizterms.net
  6. Inflation: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  7. inflation: Glossary of research economics
  8. Inflation: FACS Journalist's Guide to Economic Terms
  9. Inflation: Moneyterms
  10. Terms related to the Federal Reserve, banking and economics (No longer online)
  11. Inflation: Monetary History
  12. Inflation: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  13. Inflation: Futures and Options Market Terminology
  14. inflation: Finance-Glossary.com
  15. Inflation: Inflation Glossary
  16. Inflation: Investopedia
  17. Inflation: Securities Terminology
  18. Inflation (disambiguation), Inflation (economics), inflation: Legal dictionary
  19. Inflation (disambiguation), Inflation (economics), inflation: Financial dictionary
  20. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  21. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  22. Yahoo Tax Center Glossary (No longer online)
  23. inflation: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Inflation (disambiguation), Inflation (economics), inflation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. inflation: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Inflation (disambiguation), Inflation (economics), inflation: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Political (No longer online)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Inflation: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  3. Inflation: Extragalactic Astronomy

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An act, instance of, or state of expansion or increase in size, especially by injection of a gas or liquid.
noun:  (economics) An increase in the quantity of money, leading to a devaluation of existing money.
noun:  (economics) An increase in the general level of prices or in the cost of living.
noun:  (economics) A decline in the value of money.
noun:  Undue expansion or increase, as of academic grades.
noun:  (cosmology) An extremely rapid expansion of the universe, theorized to have occurred very shortly after the Big Bang.
noun:  (cosmology) The inflationary epoch of the Universe, where the size of the space of universe expanded at speeds beyond the speed of light. One of the ages of the Universe. The cosmic era when most formulations of Big Bang theory start their timelines.

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