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Inflation vs Indexation - What's the difference?

inflation | indexation |

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)
  • An act, instance of, or state of expansion or increase in size, especially by injection of a gas.
    • The inflation of the balloon took five hours.
  • (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.

    • Antonyms

    * deflation

    Derived terms

    * core inflation * grade inflation * hyperinflation * inflationary * stagflation * superinflation * taxonomic inflation

    Related terms

    * inflate * conflation * reflation

    References

    * (cosmology) Burgess & , "The Great Cosmic Roller-Coaster Ride", Scientific American , November 2007, pg. 57.

    Anagrams

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    indexation

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia indexation) (en noun)
  • the adjustment of an economic variable (such as a salary) according to an index (such as that of inflation)