MEANING
Relating to inflation or tending to cause an increase in the general level of prices.
Use it for
describing pressures that may raise the general price level; distinguishing a broad price process from one price change; evaluating possible price effects of economic policyIdentifies a tendency to raise the general price level, not merely one isolated price increase. Academic functions: Causation / Relationships.
Words that belong together
- inflationary pressure
- an inflationary effect
- inflationary expectations
On the page
The analysis asks whether supply constraints generated inflationary pressure.
A rise in one product’s price does not by itself demonstrate an inflationary process across the economy.
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Word forms
- Base
- inflationary
Usage notes
Usually attributive. More inflationary is natural when comparing pressure on prices; no ordinary -er/-est forms. Register: formal. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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