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anti-inflation

anti-inflation adjective: that counteracts inflation.

Adjective

anti-inflation (comparative more anti-inflation, superlative most anti-inflation)

  1. That counteracts inflation.
    • During the hearings Snyder got into a dispute with Marriner Eccles, head of the Federal Reserve, opposing an antiinflation plan Eccles had devised — with unfortunate consequences for Eccles, as it turned out.1996, Robert J. Donovan, Conflict and Crisis: The Presidency of Harry S. Truman, 1945-1948

Forms of anti-inflation

comparativemore anti-inflation
superlativemost anti-inflation
alternative formantiinflation

Origin of anti-inflation

From anti- + inflation.

Questions about anti-inflation

What does anti-inflation mean?
Anti-inflation means that counteracts inflation.
What part of speech is anti-inflation?
Anti-inflation is an adjective.

Words near anti-inflation in the dictionary

  1. anti-inert-neutrino
  2. anti-inert-neutrinos
  3. anti-infection
  4. anti-inflammatories
  5. anti-inflammatory
  6. anti-inflation
  7. anti-inflationary
  8. anti-institutionalism
  9. anti-institutionalist
  10. anti-institutionalists
  11. anti-intellectual

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