deflation
Meaning of deflation
- the action or process of deflating or being deflated.
the deflation of the illusion that the 1960s were a perpetual party
- reduction of the general level of prices in an economy.
a time of high unemployment and deflation
a long deflation lasted until about 1896
- the removal of particles of rock, sand, etc. by the wind.
late 19th century (in the sense ‘release of air from something inflated’): from deflate; deflation (sense 3) via German from Latin deflat- ‘blown away’, from the verb deflare .
Information about deflation
- It is a name.
- The plural form of deflation is: deflations.
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Hyphenation of deflation
de-fla-tion
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- deflation is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
Translation of deflation
- German: Deflation
- Spanish: deflación
- French: déflation
- Portuguese: deflação
- Italian: deflazione
Anagrams of deflation
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