inflationn.

Brit.

/ɪnˈfleɪʃn/, U.S.

/ᵻnˈfleɪʃ(ə)n/

Etymology: < Latin inflātiōn-em, noun of action < inflāre to inflate v. Compare obsolete French inflation, -flacion, etc. (15th cent. in Godefroy).

1. The action of inflating or distending with air or gas.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > gas > air > [noun] > condition of being inflated > inflating

inflation1601

inflating1896

the world > space > extension in space > expansion or enlargement > [noun] > distension > inflation with air or gas

upblowing1527

huffing1582

sufflation1599

inflation1601

inflating1896

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. Catal. Words Art Inflation, swelling or puffing up with wind.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iv. vi. 194 Whereby..the putrifying parts do suffer a turgescence and inflation, and becomming airy and spumous..ascend unto the surface of the water.

1802 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 8 338 Having separated by inflation, the skin and muscles of one of the posterior extremities of a frog.

1900 N.E.D. at Inflation Mod. The inflation of military balloons with hydrogen instead of coal-gas.

2. The condition of being inflated with air or gas, or of being distended or swollen as if with air.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > gas > air > [noun] > condition of being inflated

inflation?1440

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > [noun] > distension

ablowingeOE

swelling1377

inflation?1440

upblowing1527

fullness1583

flatus1702

insufflation1823

pouching1847–9

ballooning1889

the world > space > extension in space > expansion or enlargement > [noun] > distension > inflation with air or gas > condition of being inflated

inflation?1440

tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) xi. l. 504 (MED) This condyment is esy & iocounde Wherof inflacioun shal noon redounde.

a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) l. §8. 185 Ysope..purges the longes of inflacioun.

?1550 H. Llwyd tr. Pope John XXI Treasury of Healthe (1585) F viij A julep of Roses is good for the inflation of the longes.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. xxi. 162 The inflation or swelling of the body made in this animal upon inspiration or drawing in its breath.

1732 J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet ii. 294 Wind coming upwards,..Inflations and Tumours of the Belly.., are Signs of a phlegmatick Constitution.

1839 C. Darwin in R. Fitzroy & C. Darwin Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Adventure & Beagle III. i. 14 By the inflation of its body, the papillæ, with which the skin is covered, become erect and pointed.

3. The condition of being puffed up with vanity, pride, or baseless notions.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pride > swelling or inflation with pride > [noun]

bolninga1340

swellingc1386

inflation1526

tympany1581

tumour1599

typhus1643

puffiness1668

inflatedness1867

bloatednessc1875

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection ii. sig. Kii^v Singular inflacions & elacions of the mynde.

1658 R. Baxter Of Saving Faith vii. 54 The undoubted fruit of this Doctrine received, would be the inflation of audacious, fiery, fantastick spirited men.

1845 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 I. i. 69 The inflation of Holkar's ambition with the hope that [etc.].

1883 J. A. Froude Short Stud. IV. ii. i. 172 The words well convey the inflation with which the Catholic revivalists were going to their work.

4. The quality of language or style when it is swollen with big or pompous words; turgidity, bombast.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [noun] > inflated or bombastic style

inflation1603

windinessa1613

ranting1633

tumoura1639

turgency1654

tympany1680

swell1744

turgidity1756

turgidness1757

tumidity1791

ráiméis1828

mouthiness1830

spread-eagleism1858

inflatedness1867

ampullosity1869

telegraphese1870

mouthing1876

Barnumese1889

intumescence1893

1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1199 A tragicall pompe, and swelling inflation of words.

1791 W. Beaumont tr. J.-J. Barthélemy Trav. Anacharsis Greece (1796) I. p. vi A style which to an English reader will appear to border on inflation and bombast.

1824 T. F. Dibdin Libr. Compan. 713 Conceits were the then fashion of the age, as inflation and obscurity are now.

†5. Of a plague: Spread, extension (cf. dilatation n. 2); or (?) increase of virulence. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. xv. xiv. f. 229^v/1 This pest rais with sa terribyll inflation y^t ilk man yat tuk it deceissit within two dayis efter.

6. ⓘ

a. Originally: an undue or excessive increase in prices, credit, the amount of money circulating, etc. Later (as a mass noun): increase in the quantity of money circulating, in relation to the goods available for purchase; a general increase in prices and fall in the purchasing value of money. Cf. deflation n. 3.core inflation, cost inflation, headline inflation, wage inflation, etc.: see the first element.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > money > value of money > [noun] > inflation or increase in monetary quantity

inflation1821

society > trade and finance > management of money > management of national resources > [noun] > political economy > states or trends of the economy

inflation1821

economic cycle1832

recovery1843

downdraught1852

perfect competition1853

downturn1858

softness1872

slump1888

downtrend1890

sag1891

under-consumption1895

recession1905

downdrift1906

economic recession1908

air pocket1913

stickiness1913

trough1916

deflation1920

downswing1922

slowdown1922

scissors1924

scissors crisis1925

uptrend1926

reflation1932

depresh1933

upswing1934

stagnation1938

countercycle1944

fiscal cliff1957

turn-down1957

stagflation1965

soft landing1973

slumpflation1974

downer1976

society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > fluctuation in price > [noun] > (an) increase in price > inordinate

inflation1821

price gouge1916

1821 C. R. Prinsep in tr. J.-B. Say Treat. Polit. Econ. I. i. xv. 176 (note) The experience of English commerce has..proved, that a casual inflation of the price of domestic, and depression of that of external products, may be the basis of permanent commerce.

1838 D. D. Barnard Speeches & Rep. Assembly N.-Y. 195 The property pledge can have no tendency whatever to prevent an inflation of the currency.

1841 F. Wood in App. Congress. Globe (27th Congr., 1st Sess.) 279/3 We have been periodically visited by panics, revulsions, and distresses, inflations, and reactions.

1863 W. S. Jevons Serious Fall in Value of Gold i. 13 The inflation of credit must be checked by the well defined boundary of available capital.

1878 N. Amer. Rev. 126 156 Despite the illegal inflation authorized by President Grant.

1922 Encycl. Brit. XXX. 984/1 Inflation had the effect of reducing the pre-war unit of value.

1973 Sun 18 Jan. 16 The Premier named inflation as public enemy No. 1.

1996 Asian Econ. News (Nexis) 1 Jan. The construction sector overheated in the early 1990s, leading to runaway inflation.

2000 Business Day (S. Afr.) 28 Jan. 7/2 Gordon Brown is widely rumoured to have cooled on the euro, worried it will ruin the golden economic scenario he enjoys of steady growth and low inflation.

b. Something likened to economic inflation in being an undue or excessive increase in something.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > excessive increase

excrescence1533

surcrease1600

overgrowth1604

overswelling1632

surcruec1638

excresce1707

hypertrophy1856

inflation1885

1885 Manch. Examiner & Times 18 Mar. 5/1 The never-failing tendency to a needless inflation of our armaments.

1987 Washington Post (Nexis) 28 June c5 We journalists are suffering an unseemly spate of adjectival excess, of adverbial inflation, of nounal anemia. We are word weary.

2012 Daily Tel. 19 Oct. 14/6 The introduction of rules for examiners designed to prevent year-on-year grade inflation.

7. Inspiration, afflatus. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > inspiration or revelation > [noun]

lightOE

lightingOE

inspiration1303

illuminationsc1340

inyettingc1340

revelationc1384

oraclec1425

revealingc1429

informationc1450

infusionc1450

illustrationc1480

gospel1481

aspirationc1534

illuminating1561

afflation1576

entheos1594

enthusiasm1595

flame-light1611

illapse1614

inspirement1616

spiration1629

respirationa1631

irradiation1631

income1647

afflatus1649

theopneustian1660

entheasm1752

prana1785

inflation1835

theopneusty1847

inflatusa1861

theopneustia1894

1835 I. Taylor Spiritual Despotism iii. 87 The opinion that the priests and priestesses of the oracular temples were nothing more than involuntary subjects of the divine inflation.

Compounds

C1. General use in various types of compound (in sense 6a), as in inflation-adjusted, inflation-busting, inflation-linked, inflation rate, etc.ⓘ

ΚΠ

1867 Daily Cleveland (Ohio) Herald 26 Aug. Meanwhile the people would be forced to pay inflation prices for every mouthful and every thread.

1874 Daily Tel. 16 Jan. 2/1 The general opinion of Americans here is that an inflation period is opening—that a ‘bull campaign’ is about to commence.

1974 Aiken (S. Carolina) Standard 22 Apr. 1- b/2 Each wage demand that is not balanced against productivity and each incident of price gouging motivated by greed help perpetuate the inflation cycle.

1985 Washington Post 15 June a1/3 The switch will be accompanied by the end of indexing of loans, bank accounts, and other financial contracts tied to the high inflation rate.

1995 Sat. Night (Toronto) June 22/3 In order to retire at sixty-five with a comfortable, inflation-adjusted lifetime pension of $30,000, a twenty-five year old needs to save $4,450 a year for forty years.

1998 E. Bignell Which? Way to save & Invest (ed. 10) xxiii. 357 An inflation-linked (index-linked) annuity is the type that provides the best protection against inflation, but pays the lowest starting income.

2013 City A.M. 28 Aug. 14/1 Interest rates will stay at present levels until unemployment drops below 7 per cent, so long as the Bank's inflation forecast does not top 2.5 per cent.

2015 Daily Mail 23 May 6/3 Welsh Assembly members are to enjoy inflation-busting pay rises.

C2.

inflation-proof v. (transitive) to protect from the effects of monetary inflation; so inflation-proofing.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > management of money > management of national resources > [verb (transitive)] > apply specific policies to

protect1778

rationalize1926

sterilize1930

reflate1932

maximize1943

overheat1956

inflation-proof1973

society > trade and finance > financial dealings > types of money-dealing > [noun] > management of assets, capital, or investments

marshalment1790

abstinence1836

gearing1932

liquidity preference1936

inflation-proofing1973

intermediation1977

society > trade and finance > management of money > management of national resources > [noun] > political economy > an economic policy > specific policies and actions

protection1719

co-operation1817

tariff-reform1859

monetary union1866

border protection1875

rationalization1875

tariffication1892

tariffade1904

inflationism1919

NEP1923

war communism1928

voodoo economics1930

substantivism1931

sterilization1938

deficit spending1941

deficit financing1943

tax-and-spend1956

indexation1960

stop-go1964

incomes policy1965

scala mobile1965

quantitative easing1966

jawboning1969

Nixonomics1969

developmentalism1970

degrowth1971

inflation-proofing1973

NEB1973

dollarization1982

fiscal engineering1982

Rogernomics1985

1973 Times 26 Nov. 14/6 The Chancellor could profitably devote the budget..to inflation-proofing those of our laws and institutions which have been created on the false assumption that monetary values are constant.

1973 Times 27 Nov. 18/6 Neither of them enjoys any automatic inflation-proofing beyond the moment of their retirement.

1974 Guardian 23 Jan. 10/1 The cuts affect universities in three ways: delayed building, a loss of inflation-proofing in current spending, and doubt about student grants.

inflation-rubber n. a removable rubber sleeve inside each teat cup of a milking machine which, as it is rhythmically inflated and deflated, squeezes the cow's teats; also elliptically inflation.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > dairy farming > [noun] > milking > milking machinery or apparatus

milk tube1839

siphon1844

tapper1884

pulsator1907

releaser1913

inflation-rubber1950

milk line1950

1950 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Feb. 114/2 Old rubberware such as used inflations must never be allowed to accumulate..close to the dairy.

1950 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Oct. 301/3 Inflation rubbers give quicker milking if they retain their tension.

1960 B. Crump Good Keen Man 102 His bellowing discourse on the good and bad brands of inflation-rubbers for milking machines.

Draft additions 1993

Astronomy. The period of exponential expansion, lasting a minute fraction of a second, postulated in the inflationary model of the universe.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the universe > [noun] > development

inflation1981

1981 Nature 2 July 35/2 A Universe with only moderate anistropy will undergo inflation and will be rapidly isotropized.

1982 Physics Lett. 108 B. 389 It is shown that the existence of a sufficiently long period of exponential expansion (inflation) in the universe would provide a natural solution of the horizon and flatness problems in cosmology and of the primordial monopole problem in grand unified theories.

1985 Nature 8 Aug. 482/2 Hawking and colleagues suggest that the Universe had a non-singular beginning followed by a period of very rapid expansion (which goes under the name of inflation).

1988 T. Ferris Coming of Age in Milky Way iii. xviii. 360 Inflation thus explained why the cosmic background radiation is isotropic, and why the quarks and electrons of the earth are identical to those of the Coma cluster of galaxies.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	inflation
释义	inflationn. Brit. /ɪnˈfleɪʃn/, U.S. /ᵻnˈfleɪʃ(ə)n/ Etymology: < Latin inflātiōn-em, noun of action < inflāre to inflate v. Compare obsolete French inflation, -flacion, etc. (15th cent. in Godefroy). 1. The action of inflating or distending with air or gas. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > gas > air > [noun] > condition of being inflated > inflating inflation1601 inflating1896 the world > space > extension in space > expansion or enlargement > [noun] > distension > inflation with air or gas upblowing1527 huffing1582 sufflation1599 inflation1601 inflating1896 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. Catal. Words Art Inflation, swelling or puffing up with wind. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iv. vi. 194 Whereby..the putrifying parts do suffer a turgescence and inflation, and becomming airy and spumous..ascend unto the surface of the water. View more context for this quotation 1802 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 8 338 Having separated by inflation, the skin and muscles of one of the posterior extremities of a frog. 1900 N.E.D. at Inflation Mod. The inflation of military balloons with hydrogen instead of coal-gas. 2. The condition of being inflated with air or gas, or of being distended or swollen as if with air. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > gas > air > [noun] > condition of being inflated inflation?1440 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > [noun] > distension ablowingeOE swelling1377 inflation?1440 upblowing1527 fullness1583 flatus1702 insufflation1823 pouching1847–9 ballooning1889 the world > space > extension in space > expansion or enlargement > [noun] > distension > inflation with air or gas > condition of being inflated inflation?1440 tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) xi. l. 504 (MED) This condyment is esy & iocounde Wherof inflacioun shal noon redounde. a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) l. §8. 185 Ysope..purges the longes of inflacioun. ?1550 H. Llwyd tr. Pope John XXI Treasury of Healthe (1585) F viij A julep of Roses is good for the inflation of the longes. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. xxi. 162 The inflation or swelling of the body made in this animal upon inspiration or drawing in its breath. View more context for this quotation 1732 J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet ii. 294 Wind coming upwards,..Inflations and Tumours of the Belly.., are Signs of a phlegmatick Constitution. 1839 C. Darwin in R. Fitzroy & C. Darwin Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Adventure & Beagle III. i. 14 By the inflation of its body, the papillæ, with which the skin is covered, become erect and pointed. 3. The condition of being puffed up with vanity, pride, or baseless notions. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > swelling or inflation with pride > [noun] bolninga1340 swellingc1386 inflation1526 tympany1581 tumour1599 typhus1643 puffiness1668 inflatedness1867 bloatednessc1875 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection ii. sig. Kii^v Singular inflacions & elacions of the mynde. 1658 R. Baxter Of Saving Faith vii. 54 The undoubted fruit of this Doctrine received, would be the inflation of audacious, fiery, fantastick spirited men. 1845 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 I. i. 69 The inflation of Holkar's ambition with the hope that [etc.]. 1883 J. A. Froude Short Stud. IV. ii. i. 172 The words well convey the inflation with which the Catholic revivalists were going to their work. 4. The quality of language or style when it is swollen with big or pompous words; turgidity, bombast. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [noun] > inflated or bombastic style inflation1603 windinessa1613 ranting1633 tumoura1639 turgency1654 tympany1680 swell1744 turgidity1756 turgidness1757 tumidity1791 ráiméis1828 mouthiness1830 spread-eagleism1858 inflatedness1867 ampullosity1869 telegraphese1870 mouthing1876 Barnumese1889 intumescence1893 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1199 A tragicall pompe, and swelling inflation of words. 1791 W. Beaumont tr. J.-J. Barthélemy Trav. Anacharsis Greece (1796) I. p. vi A style which to an English reader will appear to border on inflation and bombast. 1824 T. F. Dibdin Libr. Compan. 713 Conceits were the then fashion of the age, as inflation and obscurity are now. †5. Of a plague: Spread, extension (cf. dilatation n. 2); or (?) increase of virulence. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. xv. xiv. f. 229^v/1 This pest rais with sa terribyll inflation y^t ilk man yat tuk it deceissit within two dayis efter. 6. ⓘ a. Originally: an undue or excessive increase in prices, credit, the amount of money circulating, etc. Later (as a mass noun): increase in the quantity of money circulating, in relation to the goods available for purchase; a general increase in prices and fall in the purchasing value of money. Cf. deflation n. 3.core inflation, cost inflation, headline inflation, wage inflation, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > value of money > [noun] > inflation or increase in monetary quantity inflation1821 society > trade and finance > management of money > management of national resources > [noun] > political economy > states or trends of the economy inflation1821 economic cycle1832 recovery1843 downdraught1852 perfect competition1853 downturn1858 softness1872 slump1888 downtrend1890 sag1891 under-consumption1895 recession1905 downdrift1906 economic recession1908 air pocket1913 stickiness1913 trough1916 deflation1920 downswing1922 slowdown1922 scissors1924 scissors crisis1925 uptrend1926 reflation1932 depresh1933 upswing1934 stagnation1938 countercycle1944 fiscal cliff1957 turn-down1957 stagflation1965 soft landing1973 slumpflation1974 downer1976 society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > fluctuation in price > [noun] > (an) increase in price > inordinate inflation1821 price gouge1916 1821 C. R. Prinsep in tr. J.-B. Say Treat. Polit. Econ. I. i. xv. 176 (note) The experience of English commerce has..proved, that a casual inflation of the price of domestic, and depression of that of external products, may be the basis of permanent commerce. 1838 D. D. Barnard Speeches & Rep. Assembly N.-Y. 195 The property pledge can have no tendency whatever to prevent an inflation of the currency. 1841 F. Wood in App. Congress. Globe (27th Congr., 1st Sess.) 279/3 We have been periodically visited by panics, revulsions, and distresses, inflations, and reactions. 1863 W. S. Jevons Serious Fall in Value of Gold i. 13 The inflation of credit must be checked by the well defined boundary of available capital. 1878 N. Amer. Rev. 126 156 Despite the illegal inflation authorized by President Grant. 1922 Encycl. Brit. XXX. 984/1 Inflation had the effect of reducing the pre-war unit of value. 1973 Sun 18 Jan. 16 The Premier named inflation as public enemy No. 1. 1996 Asian Econ. News (Nexis) 1 Jan. The construction sector overheated in the early 1990s, leading to runaway inflation. 2000 Business Day (S. Afr.) 28 Jan. 7/2 Gordon Brown is widely rumoured to have cooled on the euro, worried it will ruin the golden economic scenario he enjoys of steady growth and low inflation. b. Something likened to economic inflation in being an undue or excessive increase in something. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > excessive increase excrescence1533 surcrease1600 overgrowth1604 overswelling1632 surcruec1638 excresce1707 hypertrophy1856 inflation1885 1885 Manch. Examiner & Times 18 Mar. 5/1 The never-failing tendency to a needless inflation of our armaments. 1987 Washington Post (Nexis) 28 June c5 We journalists are suffering an unseemly spate of adjectival excess, of adverbial inflation, of nounal anemia. We are word weary. 2012 Daily Tel. 19 Oct. 14/6 The introduction of rules for examiners designed to prevent year-on-year grade inflation. 7. Inspiration, afflatus. rare. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > inspiration or revelation > [noun] lightOE lightingOE inspiration1303 illuminationsc1340 inyettingc1340 revelationc1384 oraclec1425 revealingc1429 informationc1450 infusionc1450 illustrationc1480 gospel1481 aspirationc1534 illuminating1561 afflation1576 entheos1594 enthusiasm1595 flame-light1611 illapse1614 inspirement1616 spiration1629 respirationa1631 irradiation1631 income1647 afflatus1649 theopneustian1660 entheasm1752 prana1785 inflation1835 theopneusty1847 inflatusa1861 theopneustia1894 1835 I. Taylor Spiritual Despotism iii. 87 The opinion that the priests and priestesses of the oracular temples were nothing more than involuntary subjects of the divine inflation. Compounds C1. General use in various types of compound (in sense 6a), as in inflation-adjusted, inflation-busting, inflation-linked, inflation rate, etc.ⓘ ΚΠ 1867 Daily Cleveland (Ohio) Herald 26 Aug. Meanwhile the people would be forced to pay inflation prices for every mouthful and every thread. 1874 Daily Tel. 16 Jan. 2/1 The general opinion of Americans here is that an inflation period is opening—that a ‘bull campaign’ is about to commence. 1974 Aiken (S. Carolina) Standard 22 Apr. 1- b/2 Each wage demand that is not balanced against productivity and each incident of price gouging motivated by greed help perpetuate the inflation cycle. 1985 Washington Post 15 June a1/3 The switch will be accompanied by the end of indexing of loans, bank accounts, and other financial contracts tied to the high inflation rate. 1995 Sat. Night (Toronto) June 22/3 In order to retire at sixty-five with a comfortable, inflation-adjusted lifetime pension of $30,000, a twenty-five year old needs to save $4,450 a year for forty years. 1998 E. Bignell Which? Way to save & Invest (ed. 10) xxiii. 357 An inflation-linked (index-linked) annuity is the type that provides the best protection against inflation, but pays the lowest starting income. 2013 City A.M. 28 Aug. 14/1 Interest rates will stay at present levels until unemployment drops below 7 per cent, so long as the Bank's inflation forecast does not top 2.5 per cent. 2015 Daily Mail 23 May 6/3 Welsh Assembly members are to enjoy inflation-busting pay rises. C2. inflation-proof v. (transitive) to protect from the effects of monetary inflation; so inflation-proofing. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > management of national resources > [verb (transitive)] > apply specific policies to protect1778 rationalize1926 sterilize1930 reflate1932 maximize1943 overheat1956 inflation-proof1973 society > trade and finance > financial dealings > types of money-dealing > [noun] > management of assets, capital, or investments marshalment1790 abstinence1836 gearing1932 liquidity preference1936 inflation-proofing1973 intermediation1977 society > trade and finance > management of money > management of national resources > [noun] > political economy > an economic policy > specific policies and actions protection1719 co-operation1817 tariff-reform1859 monetary union1866 border protection1875 rationalization1875 tariffication1892 tariffade1904 inflationism1919 NEP1923 war communism1928 voodoo economics1930 substantivism1931 sterilization1938 deficit spending1941 deficit financing1943 tax-and-spend1956 indexation1960 stop-go1964 incomes policy1965 scala mobile1965 quantitative easing1966 jawboning1969 Nixonomics1969 developmentalism1970 degrowth1971 inflation-proofing1973 NEB1973 dollarization1982 fiscal engineering1982 Rogernomics1985 1973 Times 26 Nov. 14/6 The Chancellor could profitably devote the budget..to inflation-proofing those of our laws and institutions which have been created on the false assumption that monetary values are constant. 1973 Times 27 Nov. 18/6 Neither of them enjoys any automatic inflation-proofing beyond the moment of their retirement. 1974 Guardian 23 Jan. 10/1 The cuts affect universities in three ways: delayed building, a loss of inflation-proofing in current spending, and doubt about student grants. inflation-rubber n. a removable rubber sleeve inside each teat cup of a milking machine which, as it is rhythmically inflated and deflated, squeezes the cow's teats; also elliptically inflation. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > dairy farming > [noun] > milking > milking machinery or apparatus milk tube1839 siphon1844 tapper1884 pulsator1907 releaser1913 inflation-rubber1950 milk line1950 1950 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Feb. 114/2 Old rubberware such as used inflations must never be allowed to accumulate..close to the dairy. 1950 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Oct. 301/3 Inflation rubbers give quicker milking if they retain their tension. 1960 B. Crump Good Keen Man 102 His bellowing discourse on the good and bad brands of inflation-rubbers for milking machines. Draft additions 1993 Astronomy. The period of exponential expansion, lasting a minute fraction of a second, postulated in the inflationary model of the universe. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > [noun] > development inflation1981 1981 Nature 2 July 35/2 A Universe with only moderate anistropy will undergo inflation and will be rapidly isotropized. 1982 Physics Lett. 108 B. 389 It is shown that the existence of a sufficiently long period of exponential expansion (inflation) in the universe would provide a natural solution of the horizon and flatness problems in cosmology and of the primordial monopole problem in grand unified theories. 1985 Nature 8 Aug. 482/2 Hawking and colleagues suggest that the Universe had a non-singular beginning followed by a period of very rapid expansion (which goes under the name of inflation). 1988 T. Ferris Coming of Age in Milky Way iii. xviii. 360 Inflation thus explained why the cosmic background radiation is isotropic, and why the quarks and electrons of the earth are identical to those of the Coma cluster of galaxies. 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