RISING PRICES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rising prices mean? 

• RISING PRICES (noun)
  The noun RISING PRICES has 1 sense:

1. a general and progressive increase in prices

  Familiarity information: RISING PRICES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RISING PRICES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A general and progressive increase in prices

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

inflation; rising prices

Context example:

in inflation everything gets more valuable except money

Hypernyms ("rising prices" 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)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rising prices"):

cost-pull inflation (inflation caused by an increase in the costs of production)

demand-pull inflation (inflation caused by an increase in demand or in the supply of money)

reflation (inflation of currency after a period of deflation; restore the system to a previous state)

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