inflation   (Sound)

The noun inflation has 4 senses

• inflation, rising prices -- (a general and progressive increase in prices; "in inflation everything gets more valuable except money")


• inflation -- ((cosmology) a brief exponential expansion of the universe (faster than the speed of light) postulated to have occurred shortly after the big bang)


• ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, puffiness, splashiness, inflation -- (lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity)


• inflation -- (the act of filling something with air)