Inflation
Related Definitions
[n] the act of filling something with air
[n] lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
[n] (cosmology) a brief exponential expansion of the universe (faster than the speed of light) postulated to have occurred shortly after the big bang
[n] a general and progressive increase in prices; "in inflation everything gets more valuable except money"
Related Terms
access, accession, accretion, accrual, accruement, accumulation, addition, advance, affectation, aggrandizement, amplification, appreciation, ascent, augmentation, ballooning, ballyhoo, Barnumism, bedizenment, big price tag, big talk, bloat, bloatedness,