inflationary
- adjective
- /ɪnˈfleɪʃənɛri/
- Rising wages without corresponding productivity can create an inflationary environment.
- inflationary pressures
- inflationary expectations
- inflationary spiral
No, this inflationary crisis was a supply crisis.
- No, this inflationary crisis was a supply crisis.
- And right as you know, these inflationary tailwinds pick up.
- So right now, we are in a very inflationary environment.
- They expect that there will be an inflationary impact from Donald Trump's tariffs.
- If the housing market calms down, it would ease some inflationary fears.
- But critics of Trump's plan say that they're not just redistributive, but that they'll be inflationary and harm the US economy.
- They'll say yes, fine, until they're told about the tax increases and increases in debt and inflationary consequences of doing so.
- So we started this inflationary path, if you will, years and years and years ago, decades ago.
- It was the fact that we had inflationary excess macroeconomic stimulus.
- Often inflationary movements are come in conjunction with.
- But for the most part, the kind of inflationary increase to the supply of gold is pretty stagnant year over year.
- So crunching financial models day in and day out, inflationary accounting, doing models for to account for inflation in places like Brazil.
- There are taxpayers, Medicare, Social Security, local taxes also, they're inexpensive and the labor replacement will be inflationary.
Examples
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The economy is fragile, and suppressed inflationary pressures could explode rapidly.
Academic text (1992) -
The resulting wealth effects on aggregate demand have clearly generated potential inflationary pressure.
Academic text (1990) -
So right now, we are in a very inflationary environment.
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- We live in inflationary times.
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It gives us hope that this inflationary process may come down a little faster.
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In recent months, many of Trump's core policies lean in an inflationary direction.
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If the housing market calms down, it would ease some inflationary fears.
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First, price increases would further aggravate the inflationary pressures that the government was seeking to control.
Academic text (1999) -
The country is blessed with a bumper crop, and inflationary pressures are being beaten back.
Academic text (2017) -
They expect that there will be an inflationary impact from Donald Trump's tariffs.
Antonyms
Compounds
How Inflationary
- Specialized
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Inflationary comes from the verb inflate, which is built from the parts in- 'into' and flare 'to blow', giving the basic idea of 'blowing up'. So something inflationary tends to make prices 'blow up' or rise, like blowing air into a balloon makes it bigger.