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inflation

 noun
     
Related topics: Business, Economics
in‧fla‧tion S2 W2 [uncountable]
1BPE a continuing increase in prices, or the rate at which prices increase
inflation rate/rate of inflation
The annual rate of inflation fell.
Inflation is now running at over 16%.
countries with high inflation
2 the process of filling something with air
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