English-Spanish translations for inflation

• inflación
  Tenemos que actuar contra la inflación creciente. We have to act against growing inflation.
  En lugar de una inflación del 13%, presentará una inflación de apenas el 2,3%. Also, instead of 13%, inflation is expected to be a mere 2.3%.
  Alemania tiene miedo de la inflación. Germany is afraid of inflation.

Definition of inflation

• An act, instance of, or state of expansion or increase in size, especially by injection of a gas
• An increase in the general level of prices or in the cost of living
• An increase in the quantity of money, leading to a devaluation of existing money
• An extremely rapid expansion of the universe, theorised to have occurred very shortly after the big bang

Examples

• The inflation of the balloon took five hours.

Related words

• hyperinflation
• inflationary
• superinflation
• disinflation
• anti-inflationary
• hyperinflationary
• reinflation
• anti-inflation
• inflation target