DISINFLATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disinflation mean? 

• DISINFLATION (noun)
  The noun DISINFLATION has 1 sense:

1. a reduction of prices intended to improve the balance of payments

  Familiarity information: DISINFLATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISINFLATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A reduction of prices intended to improve the balance of payments

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("disinflation" is a kind of...):

economic process (any process affecting the production and development and management of material wealth, or, according to Carmine Gorga, Ph.D., author of the book 'The Economic Process', the process of production of real wealth, distribution of ownership rights over real and monetary wealth, and consumption or expenditure of monetary wealth to purchase real wealth)

Antonym:

deflation (a contraction of economic activity resulting in a decline of prices)

inflation (a general and progressive increase in prices)