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Deflation   Listen
noun
deflation  n.  
1.
The act or process of deflating.
2.
A fall in the average prices of goods and services; usually associated with contraction of economic activity. Opposite of inflation. Compare disinflation.
3.
The reduction of available credit or a contraction of economic activity resulting from or associated with a decline of prices.
4.
The act of letting the air out of something.
5.
(Geol.) The erosion of land structures such as sand or soil due to the action of wind.





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"Deflation" Quotes from Famous Books



... diminishing of such a prostration. But, knitting his brows, he pondered on the still chaotic state of the whole data concerning the "endocrine chain," and on the fallibility of previous unequivocal pronouncements in the science of medicine. He had a slight feeling of deflation, followed by a glow of curiosity; and he returned into the house to change his ...
— Sacrifice • Stephen French Whitman


Words linked to "Deflation" :   inflation, deflate, wearing away, erosion, wearing, decrease, economic process, eating away, step-down, geology


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