inflatory

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adjective

Relating to, or causing, inflation; inflationary.

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Meanings

adjectiveinflatory (comparative more inflatory, superlative most inflatory)

comparative more inflatory · superlative most inflatory

  1. rareRelating to, or causing, inflation; inflationary.

    […] work conducted in the »science of metaphor« is presently so huge that an extra attempt to spell out another theory of metaphor may have an inflatory effect […]

    2013, Z. Radman, Metaphors: Figures of the Mind
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    A contributory circumstance lay in the fact that the monetary situation was constantly inflatory: the quantity of money in circulation far surpassed the total value of the goods available in the stores.

    1965, Bulletin, page 21
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