STAGFLATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stagflation mean? 

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

1. a period of slow economic growth and high unemployment (stagnation) while prices rise (inflation)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• STAGFLATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A period of slow economic growth and high unemployment (stagnation) while prices rise (inflation)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

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

inflation; rising prices (a general and progressive increase in prices)

Derivation:

stagflationary (characteristic of or promoting stagflation)