a general and progressive increase in prices; " in inflation everything gets more valuable except money"

the act of filling something with air

( cosmology) a brief exponential expansion of the universe ( faster than the speed of light) postulated to have occurred shortly after the big bang

The act or process of inflating, or the state of being inflated, as with air or gas; distention; expansion; enlargement.

The state of being puffed up, as with pride; conceit; vanity.

Undue expansion or increase, from overissue; - said of currency.

An increase in the volume of money and credit relative to available goods resulting in a substantial and continuing rise in the general price level.

State of being puffed up: in finance, the increased issue of a paper currency, not warranted by the security and other circumstances.

Overissue, as of currency.

The act of inflating; the state of being inflated; the state of being puffed up; artificial increase or rise.

In addition, certain characters that can not be expressed easily by measurements, such as inflation of the auditory bullae and the curvature of the zygomatic arch, were observed. – Subspeciation in the Meadow Mouse, Microtus montanus, in Wyoming and Colorado by Sydney Anderson

If Mr. Stanley's antagonist had been a vehement advocate for clerical learning as the great essential to his profession, he would have been the first to caution him against the pride and inflation which often attend learning, when not governed by religion. – Coelebs In Search of a Wife by Hannah More

I know too well that writers may operate like the Federal Reserve banks, except that in literature there is no limit to inflation. – Definitions by Henry Seidel Canby

There was steady inflation. – Our Legal Heritage, 4th Ed. by S. A. Reilly