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inflation n. [
rising prices] a general and progressive increase in prices; "in inflation everything gets more valuable except money"
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inflation n. (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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inflation n. [
ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, puffiness, splashiness] lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
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inflation n. the act of filling something with air
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