Inflationary means connected with inflation or causing inflation.
[business]
The bank is worried about mounting inflationary pressures.
inflationary in British English
(ɪnˈfleɪʃənərɪ)
adjective
of, relating to, causing, or characterized by inflation
inflationary wage claims
inflationary in American English
(ɪnˈfleɪʃəˌnɛri)
adjective
of, causing, or characterized by inflation
Examples of 'inflationary' in a sentence
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The inflationary spiral when it comes to commemorations can take on a life of its own.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The banks' difficulty is that inflationary pressures across the advanced industrial economies are weak.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Only the pound is down, giving us a perfect competitiveness boost without significant inflationary risk.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
This, along with recent jumps in oil, is adding to inflationary pressure.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The increase is also likely to feed into inflationary pressures in the UK economy as businesses are forced to pay more for transport.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Yet the risks of an inflationary surge are all too clear.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
The extent to which they do this will influence the inflationary effects.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
That requires changing the inflationary expectations of consumers and businesses.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Unit labour costs are a key measure of inflationary pressures in the economy.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Hawks have persistently sounded the alarm over wage growth as a potential inflationary threat.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
But at the same time it produced a tremendous inflationary spiral.
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She noted diminished inflationary pressures and risks from the international outlook.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Such an increase would hit consumer spending and recovery prospects and could destabilise inflationary expectations.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
This explains the apparent absence of inflationary pressure.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
But inflationary expectations are a risk to his plans.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Other inflationary pressure was coming from spiralling food prices.
The Sun (2010)
And the point of these asset purchases will be to change inflationary expectations.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
It has also been trying hard to suppress tremendous inflationary pressure.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
The central bank said that the increases were intended to keep credit and investment in check and to stabilise inflationary expectations.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
But they still won't do away with the inflationary effect.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
We are caught in an out-of-control inflationary spiral and we have only ourselves to blame.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
There is no sign of inflationary risk; indeed the oil price is collapsing.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
There will be a bout of anger and moralising, then football will continue with its inflationary spiral.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
It is therefore essential that they properly monitor the growth of broad money together with the build-up of wider inflationary risks.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
The GDP figures underscored the strength of the inflationary threat.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
He added: The effects are more inflationary energy increases.
The Sun (2008)
Against that backdrop, the inflationary effect of a rise in Chinese prices should be much more manageable.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
The second concern, over the inflationary threat from a less productive economy, is better founded but equally misconceived.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
In other languages
inflationary
British English: inflationary ADJECTIVE
Inflationary means connected with inflation or causing inflation.
The bank is worried about mounting inflationary pressures.
American English: inflationary
Brazilian Portuguese: inflacionário
Chinese: 有关通货膨胀的
European Spanish: inflacionario
French: inflationniste
German: inflationär
Italian: inflazionistico
Japanese: インフレの
Korean: 인플레이션의
European Portuguese: inflacionário
Latin American Spanish: inflacionario
All related terms of 'inflationary'
anti-inflationary
of or relating to measures to counteract or combat inflation
inflationary gap
the excess of total spending in an economy over the value, at current prices, of the output it can produce
counter-inflationary
designed to reduce inflation
inflationary spiral
the situation in which price and income increases may each induce further rises in the other
inflationary universe
a variation of the cosmological big-bang theory in which the early stage of the evolution of the universe is postulated to include a period of accelerated expansion