Meaning of DEFLATION
| Pronunciation: | | di'fleyshun
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- [n] the act of letting the air out of something
- [n] a contraction of economic activity resulting in a decline of prices
- [n] (geology) the erosion of soil as a consequence of sand and dust and loose rocks being removed by the wind; "a constant deflation of the desert landscape"
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| | Antonyms: | | disinflation, inflation, inflation, rising prices | | |
| | See Also: | | decrease, diminution, eating away, economic process, eroding, erosion, reduction, step-down, wearing, wearing away | |
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| | Related Terms: | | abasement, abatement, abridgment, alleviation, attenuation, break, breakdown, cave-in, cheapening, collapse, comedown, contraction, crash, cropper, cut, dampening, damping, debasement, decline, decrease, decrement, decrescence, deduction, depreciation, depression, descent, devaluation, diminishment, diminution, disgrace, dive, downfall, dump, dying, dying off, embarrassment, extenuation, fade-out, fall, hangdog look, humbled pride, humiliation, implosion, languishment, lessening, letdown, letup, lowering, markdown, miniaturization, mitigation, mortification, nose dive, plummet, plummeting, plunge, pratfall, price cut, price fall, price reduction, prostration, put-down, reduction, relaxation, sag, sagging, scaling down, self-abasement, self-abnegation, self-diminishment, setdown, shame, shamefacedness, shamefastness, simplicity, slash, slump, smash, stumble, subtraction, tailspin, tumble, weakening |
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