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inflation

/ˌɪnfˈleɪʃən/ · 9 letters · 7 distinct letters

  1. noun

    a general and progressive increase in prices

    in inflation everything gets more valuable except money

  2. noun

    (cosmology) a brief exponential expansion of the universe (faster than the speed of light) postulated to have occurred shortly after the big bang

  3. noun

    lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity

  4. noun

    the act of filling something with air

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