Inflation vs Indexation - What's the difference?
inflation | indexation |
An act, instance of, or state of expansion or increase in size, especially by injection of a gas.
(economics) An increase in the general level of prices or in the cost of living.
(economics) A decline in the value of money.
(economics) An increase in the quantity of money, leading to a devaluation of existing money.
Undue expansion or increase, as of academic grades.
(cosmology) An extremely rapid expansion of the universe, theorised to have occurred very shortly after the big bang.
the adjustment of an economic variable (such as a salary) according to an index (such as that of inflation)
As nouns the difference between inflation and indexation
is that inflation is an act, instance of, or state of expansion or increase in size, especially by injection of a gas while indexation is the adjustment of an economic variable (such as a salary) according to an index (such as that of inflation.inflation
English
(wikipedia inflation)Noun
(en noun)- The inflation of the balloon took five hours.