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disinflationary

disinflationary adjective: exhibiting or causing reduced inflation.

Adjective

disinflationary (comparative more disinflationary, superlative most disinflationary)

  1. Exhibiting or causing reduced inflation.
    • For the period through 1984, there is weak support for accelerationism, though the linear fit is mainly due to the disinflationary impact of high unemployment, which no one disputes, not the inflationary effects of prosperity.1998, James K. Galbraith, “Comments”, in Inflation, Unemployment, and Monetary Policy, page 66

Forms of disinflationary

comparativemore disinflationary
superlativemost disinflationary

Origin of disinflationary

From dis- + inflationary.

Questions about disinflationary

What does disinflationary mean?
Disinflationary means exhibiting or causing reduced inflation.
What part of speech is disinflationary?
Disinflationary is an adjective.

Words near disinflationary in the dictionary

  1. disinflate
  2. disinflated
  3. disinflates
  4. disinflating
  5. disinflation
  6. disinflationary
  7. disinflations
  8. disinfo
  9. disinfodemic
  10. disinfodemics
  11. disinfographic

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