shrinkflating
shrinkflating is the present participle of shrinkflate.
Meaning of shrinkflate
Verb
shrinkflate (third-person singular simple present shrinkflates, present participle shrinkflating, simple past and past participle shrinkflated)
- To make a product smaller while continuing to market it at the same price.
- Lately, Mr. Dworsky has had his work cut out for him. With inflation at a 40-year high, business owners have been increasingly shrinkflating their products in an attempt to hide price increases.2022 November 26, Clare Toeniskoetter, “Meet the Man on a Mission to Expose Sneaky Price Increases”, in The New York Times
Questions about shrinkflating
- What is shrinkflating the present participle of?
- Shrinkflating is the present participle of shrinkflate.
Words near shrinkflating in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: shrinkflating (page history and authors); shrinkflate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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