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inflation
noun
1 inflation
A general and progressive increase in prices:
— In inflation everything gets more valuable except money.
synonym: rising prices.
Roget 322:
rarity,
tenuity;
absence of solidity
etc.
321;
subtility†;
subtilty†,
subtlety;
sponginess,
compressibility.
rarefaction,
expansion,
dilatation,
inflation,
subtilization†.
vaporization,
evaporation,
diffusion,
gassification†.
ether
etc.
(gas)
334.
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Roget 800:
money,
legal tender;
money matters,
money market;
finance;
accounts
etc.
811;
funds,
treasure;
capital,
stock;
assets
etc.
(property)
780;
wealth
etc.
803;
supplies,
ways and means,
wherewithal,
sinews of war,
almighty dollar,
needful,
cash;
mammon.
[colloquial terms for money]
dough,
cabbage.
money-like instruments,
M1,
M2,
sum,
amount;
balance,
balance sheet;
sum total;
proceeds
etc.
(receipts)
810.
currency,
circulating medium,
specie,
coin,
piece [Fr.],
hard cash,
cold cash;
dollar,
sterling coin;
pounds shillings and pence;
Ls. d.;
pocket,
breeches pocket,
purse;
money in hand,
cash at hand;
ready money,
ready cash;
slug [U.S.],
wad [Slang]
wad of bills [U.S.],
wad of money,
thick wad of bills,
roll of dough [Coll.];
rhino†,
blunt†,
dust†,
mopus†,
tin†,
salt†,
chink†;
argent comptant [Lat.];
bottom dollar,
buzzard dollar†;
checks,
dibs [Slang].
[specific types of currency]
double eagle,
eagle;
Federal currency,
fractional currency,
postal currency;
Federal Reserve Note,
United States Note,
silver certificate†,
gold certificate†;
long bit,
short bit [U.S.];
moss,
nickel,
pile [Slang],
pin money,
quarter [U.S.],
red cent,
roanoke†,
rock [Slang];
seawan†,
seawant†;
thousand dollars,
grand [Coll.].
[types of paper currency, U.S.]
single,
one-dollar bill;
two-dollar bill;
five-dollar bill,
fiver [Coll.],
fin [Coll.],
Lincoln;
ten-dollar bill,
sawbuck;
twenty-dollar bill,
Jackson,
double sawbuck;
fifty-dollar bill;
hundred-dollar bill,
C-note.
[types of U.S. coins: list]
penny,
cent,
Lincoln cent,
indian head penny,
copper
[1700-1900];
two-cent piece three-cent piece [Fr.],
half-dime†,
nickel,
buffalo nickel,
V nickel†,
dime,
disme†,
mercury dime†,
quarter,
two bits,
half dollar,
dollar,
silver dollar,
Eisenhower dollar,
Susan B.
Anthony dollar†.
precious metals,
gold,
silver,
copper,
bullion,
ingot,
nugget.
petty cash,
pocket money,
change,
small change,
small coin,
doit†,
stiver†,
rap,
mite,
farthing,
sou,
penny,
shilling,
tester,
groat,
guinea;
rouleau†;
wampum;
good sum,
round sum,
lump sum;
power of money,
plum,
lac of rupees.
major coin,
crown;
minor coin.
monetarist,
monetary theory.
[Science of coins]
numismatics,
chrysology†.
[coin scholar or collector]
numismatist.
paper money,
greenback;
major denomination,
minor denomination;
money order,
postal money order,
Post Office order;
bank note;
bond;
bill,
bill of exchange;
order,
warrant,
coupon,
debenture,
exchequer bill,
assignat†;
blueback [U.S.],
hundi†,
shinplaster [U.S.].
note,
note of hand;
promissory note,
I O U;
draft,
check,
cheque,
back-dated check;
negotiable order of withdrawal,
NOW.
remittance
etc.
(payment)
807;
credit
etc.
805;
liability
etc.
806.
drawer,
drawee†;
obligor†,
obligee†;
moneyer†,
coiner.
false money,
bad money;
base coin,
flash note,
slip†,
kite [Slang];
fancy stocks;
Bank of Elegance.
argumentum ad crumenam [Lat.].
letter of credit.
circulation,
multiplier effect.
[variation in the value of currency]
inflation,
double-digit inflation,
hyperinflation,
erosion of the currency,
debasement of the currency;
deflation;
stagflation.
[relative value of two currencies]
exchange rate,
rate of exchange,
floating exchange rates,
fixed rates.
[place to exchange currencies]
currency counter,
currency exchange,
bureau de change [Fr.].
gold-backed currency,
gold standard,
silver standard.
bank account,
savings account,
checking account,
money market account,
NOW account,
time deposit,
deposit,
demand deposit,
super NOW account;
certificate of deposit,
CD.
[money symbols]
$ [U.S.],
US$ [U.S.];
Y;
A$.
[authorities controlling currency]
Federal Reserve Bank [U.S.],
central bank [U.S.];
Federal Reserve Board,
board of governors of the Federal Reserve;
Treasury Department;
Secret Service.
[place where money is manufactured]
mint,
bureau of engraving.
[government profit in manufacturing money]
seigniorage.
[false money]
counterfeit,
funny money,
bogus money,
(falsehood)
545.
[cost of money]
interest,
interest rate,
discount rate.
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Roget 577:
ornament;
floridness c†.
adj..
turgidity,
turgescence†;
altiloquence
etc.
adj.†;
declamation,
teratology†;
well-rounded periods;
elegance
etc.
578;
orotundity.
inversion,
antithesis,
alliteration,
paronomasia;
figurativeness
etc.
(metaphor)
521.
flourish;
flowers of speech,
flowers of rhetoric;
frills of style,
euphuism†,
euphemism.
big-sounding words,
high-sounding words;
macrology†,
sesquipedalia verba [Lat.],
Alexandrine;
inflation,
pretension;
rant,
bombast,
fustian,
prose run mad;
fine writing;
sesquipedality†;
Minerva press.
phrasemonger;
euphuist†,
euphemist.
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Roget 349:
wind,
draught,
flatus,
afflatus,
efflation†,
eluvium†;
air;
breath,
breath of air;
puff,
whiff,
zephyr;
blow,
breeze,
drift;
aura;
stream,
current,
jet stream;
undercurrent.
gust,
blast,
squall,
gale,
half a gale,
storm,
tempest,
hurricane,
whirlwind,
tornado,
samiel,
cyclone,
anticyclone,
typhoon;
simoon†,
simoom;
harmattan†,
monsoon,
trade wind,
sirocco,
mistral,
bise†,
tramontane,
levanter;
capful of wind;
fresh breeze,
stiff breeze;
keen blast;
blizzard,
barber [Can.],
candelia†,
chinook,
foehn,
khamsin†,
norther,
vendaval†,
wuther†.
windiness
etc.
adj.;
ventosity†;
rough weather,
dirty weather,
ugly weather,
stress of weather;
dirty sky,
mare's tail;
thick squall,
black squall,
white squall.
anemography†,
aerodynamics;
wind gauge,
weathercock,
vane,
weather-vane,
wind sock;
anemometer,
anemoscope†.
sufflation†,
insufflation†,
perflation†,
inflation,
afflation†;
blowing,
fanning
etc.
v.;
ventilation.
sneezing
etc.
v.;
errhine†;
sternutative†,
sternutatory†;
sternutation;
hiccup,
hiccough;
catching of the breath.
Eolus,
Boreas,
Zephyr,
cave of Eolus.
air pump,
air blower,
lungs,
bellows,
blowpipe,
fan,
ventilator,
punkah†;
branchiae†,
gills,
flabellum†,
vertilabrum†.
whiffle ball.
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Dutch: inflatie, opblazen
Polish: inflacja
2 inflation
cosmology A brief exponential expansion of the universe (faster than the speed of light) postulated to have occurred shortly after the big bang.
Polish: inflacja kosmologiczna, inflacja
3 inflation
Lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity.
synonyms: ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, puffiness, splashiness.
Roget 194:
expansion;
increase of size
etc.
35;
enlargement,
extension,
augmentation;
amplification,
ampliation†;
aggrandizement,
spread,
increment,
growth,
development,
pullulation,
swell,
dilation,
rarefaction;
turgescence†,
turgidness,
turgidity;
dispansion†;
obesity
etc.
(size)
192;
hydrocephalus,
hydrophthalmus [Med.];
dropsy,
tumefaction,
intumescence,
swelling,
tumor,
diastole,
distension;
puffing,
puffiness;
inflation;
pandiculation†.
dilatability,
expansibility.
germination,
growth,
upgrowth†;
accretion
etc.
35;
budding,
gemmation†.
overgrowth,
overdistension†;
hypertrophy,
tympany†.
bulb
etc.
(convexity)
250;
plumper;
superiority of size.
[expansion of the universe]
big bang;
Hubble constant.
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Dutch: hoogdravendheid
Polish: napuszoność, bombastyczność, górnolotność, bombast, pompatyczność
4 inflation
The act of filling something with air.
Polish: rozdymanie, nadymanie
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