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| anti-inflation |
combined form of inflation. |
| bracket creep |
(informal) an increase in income leading to one's placement in a higher tax bracket, sometimes resulting in a net decrease in income as a result of higher tax rates and inflation. |
| Bureau of Labor Statistics |
a research agency of the U.S. Department of Labor that collects and compiles statistical information, providing such measures as Consumer Price Index, inflation rate, and unemployment rate. |
| counterinflation |
combined form of inflation. |
| disinflation |
a slowing of the rate of inflation. [1/2 definitions] |
| double-digit |
of, pertaining to, or denoting a rate greater than ten and less than one hundred percent, esp. used to describe a high inflation rate. |
| inflationary |
of, pertaining to, or causing economic inflation. |
| inflationist |
one who advocates inflation through the expansion of the money supply. [2 definitions] |
| overinflation |
combined form of inflation. |
| price control |
a government's setting of limits on the prices of basic goods and services, usu. done as a means to fight inflation. |
| reinflation |
combined form of inflation. |
| self-inflation |
combined form of inflation. |
| stagflation |
an economic condition marked by a high rate of inflation together with a decline in business activity and an increase in unemployment. |
| swell |
to increase in volume by inflation, absorption, internal pressure, growth, or the like; expand; distend. [2/19 definitions] |
| swollen |
enlarged by or as if by inflation, internal pressure, growth, or the like; bulging; distended. [1/2 definitions] |
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