rising prices

Noun
  1. A general and progressive increase in prices (synset 113520031)
    "in inflation everything gets more valuable except money"
    is a type of: economic process - any process affecting the production and development and management of material wealth
    subtypes:
    • cost-pull inflation - inflation caused by an increase in the costs of production
    • demand-pull inflation - inflation caused by an increase in demand or in the supply of money
    • reflation - inflation of currency after a period of deflation; restore the system to a previous state
    • stagflation - a period of slow economic growth and high unemployment (stagnation) while prices rise (inflation)
    same as: inflation

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