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🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

インフレ

Pronunciation / Transliteration: infure

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Inflation/ɪnˈfleɪ.ʃən/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #1450 frequency
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"インフレが経済に深刻な影響を与えています。"

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1 sense
As noun
  1. 1

    A general increase in prices and fall in the purchasing value of money.

    "High inflation makes it difficult for families to budget their monthly expenses."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin 'inflatio', meaning a blowing into or swelling, from the verb 'inflare'. It entered English in the 17th century to describe bodily swelling before being adopted in economics during the mid-19th century to denote the expansion of the money supply and subsequent rise in prices.

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