Inflation

n. increase in the supply of money in relation to the amount of goods available resulting in a rise in prices; act of filling with air or gas; state of being filled with air or gas

Inflation is measured as the growth of the money supply in an economy, without a commensurate increase in the supply of goods and services. This results in a rise in the general price level as measured against a standard level of purchasing power. There are a variety of inflation measures in use, related to different price indices, because different prices affect different people. Two widely known indices for which inflation rates are commonly reported are the Consumer Price Index (CPI), which measures nominal consumer prices, and the GDP deflator, which measures the nominal prices of goods and services produced by a given country or region.
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Noun
1. a general and progressive increase in prices; "in inflation everything gets more valuable except money"
(synonym) rising prices
(antonym) deflation
(hypernym) economic process
(hyponym) cost-pull inflation
(derivation) inflate
2. (cosmology) a brief exponential expansion of the universe (faster than the speed of light) postulated to have occurred shortly after the big bang
(hypernym) explosion, detonation, blowup
(classification) cosmology, cosmogony, cosmogeny
3. lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
(synonym) ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, splashiness
(hypernym) inelegance
4. the act of filling something with air
(antonym) deflation
(hypernym) expansion, enlargement
(derivation) balloon, inflate, billow

n. inflation, increase in the supply of money in relation to the amount of goods available resulting in a rise in prices

n. inflation, distension