inflation
I
(decrease in value of currency) noun
boost in prices, currency devaluation, decrease in purchasing power, high prices, hike in prices, jump in prices, price increase, substantial rise of prices, undue expansion of currency, upturn in prices
II
(increase) noun
aggrandizement, amplification, bloatedness, blowing up, dilation, distension, elevation, enlargement, escalation, exaggeration, expansion, extension, growth, increase, inflatio, rise, spread, sufflation, surge, swell, swelling, turgescence, turgidity, turgidness, upsurge, waxing
associated concepts: inflation of damages, inflation of value
III
index
bombast, boom (prosperity), exaggeration, growth (increase), overstatement, pretense (ostentation), rodomontade
Burton's Legal Thesaurus.
William C. Burton.
2006