rising prices

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

rising prices - a general and progressive increase in prices; "in inflation everything gets more valuable except money"inflationcost-pull inflation - inflation caused by an increase in the costs of productiondemand-pull inflation - inflation caused by an increase in demand or in the supply of moneyeconomic process - any process affecting the production and development and management of material wealthreflation - inflation of currency after a period of deflation; restore the system to a previous statestagflation - a period of slow economic growth and high unemployment (stagnation) while prices rise (inflation)