stagflation
Syllables: stag·flat·ion/ˌstæɡˈfleɪʃn̩/US/ˌstæɡˈfleɪʃ(ə)n/
stagflation noun: prolonged high inflation accompanied by stagnant growth, often with recession and high unemployment.
Noun
stagflation (countable and uncountable, plural stagflations)
- Prolonged high inflation accompanied by stagnant growth, often with recession and high unemployment.
- We now have the worst of both worlds—not just inflation on the one side or stagnation on the other, but both of them together. We have a sort of "stagflation" situation and history in modern terms is indeed being made. There is another point behind the figures. As I say, production has fallen by 1...1965 November 17, Iain Macleod, “Economic Affairs”, in Parliamentary Debates (Hansard): House of Commons Official Report (House of Commons of the United Kingdom), volume 720, London: Her Majesty’s...
- As soon as we understand how involuntary unemployment can result from rational and well-informed individual behavior, it also becomes obvious how inflation and unemployment—which we once thought could not occur simultaneously—can be combined, as they have been in the recent stagflation.1982, Mancur Olson, “The Questions, and the Standards a Satisfactory Answer Must Meet”, in The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities, New Haven, Conn....
stagflation meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Arabic and Malay
stagflation in Hindi
- prolonged high inflation accompanied by stagnant growth
- मुद्रास्फीतिजनित मंदी mudrāsphītijnit mandī
stagflation in Tamil
- தேக்கமுற்ற வீக்கம்
stagflation in Arabic
- prolonged high inflation accompanied by stagnant growth
- رُكُود تَضَخُّمِي rukūd taḍaḵḵumī
stagflation in Malay
- prolonged high inflation accompanied by stagnant growth
- stagflasi
More languagesFewer languages
- stagflation in Indonesian
- stagflasi
- stagflation in Persian
- رکود تورمی
- stagflation in Vietnamese
- đình lạm
Examples of stagflation in a sentence
- We have a sort of "stagflation" situation and history in modern terms is indeed being made.1965 November 17, Iain Macleod, “Economic Affairs”, in Parliamentary Debates (Hansard): House of Commons Official Report (House of Commons...
- Stagflation—inflation combined with minimal economic growth—eroded wages and profits, weakening business and consumer confidence.2013, George R. Tyler, “Facing Reality”, in What Went Wrong: How the 1% Hijacked the American Middle Class … and What Other Countries Got...
- The UK economy is suffering a nasty bout of stagflation and the prospects appear poor.2023 June 17, Chris Giles, Delphine Strauss, “Britain’s economic malaise”, in FT Weekend, London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC...
- Stagflation is a period of stagnant economic growth accompanied by persistently high inflation and a sharp rise in unemployment.2023 December 11, Anna-Louise Jackson, “Is the U.S. Economy Heading For Stagflation?”, in Benjamin Curry, editor, Forbes, New York, N.Y....
Forms of stagflation
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Origin of stagflation
Blend of stagnation + inflation, generally thought to have been coined by the British politician Iain Macleod (1913–1970) in a 17 November 1965 parliamentary speech: see the quotation.
Words formed from stagflation
Words that rhyme with stagflation
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Questions about stagflation
- What does stagflation mean?
- Stagflation means prolonged high inflation accompanied by stagnant growth, often with recession and high unemployment.
- What is stagflation in Hindi?
- Stagflation in Hindi is मुद्रास्फीतिजनित मंदी (mudrāsphītijnit mandī). See Stagflation meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use stagflation in a sentence?
- We have a sort of "stagflation" situation and history in modern terms is indeed being made.
- What part of speech is stagflation?
- Stagflation is a noun.
- How do you pronounce stagflation?
- Stagflation is pronounced /ˌstæɡˈfleɪʃn̩/ (UK).
- What is the plural of stagflation?
- The plural of stagflation is stagflations.
Words near stagflation in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: stagflation (page history and authors); stagflation (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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