Deflation

Noun

 * 1)  A decrease in the general price level, that is, in the nominal cost of goods and services as well as wages.

Adjectives for Deflation
sweeping; monetary; postwar; credit; vicious; severe; sharp; salient; encroaching.

Verbs for Deflation
guard against—; master—; prepare for— produce—; prophesy—; protect against— release—; remedy—; repair—; sink into-; —affects; —injures; —looms; —menaces; —occurs; —produces; —reduces; —remedies; —repairs; —ruins.

Thesaurus
decline, decrease, decrement, decrescence, deduction, depreciation, depression, descent, devaluation, diminishment, diminution, disgrace, dive, downfall, dump, dying, dying off, embarrassment, extenuation, fade-out, fall, hangdog look, humbled pride, humiliation, implosion, languishment, lessening, letdown, letup, lowering, markdown, miniaturization, mitigation, mortification, nose dive, plummet, plummeting, plunge, pratfall, price cut, price fall, price reduction, prostration, put-down, reduction, relaxation, sag, sagging, scaling down, self-abasement, self-abnegation, self-diminishment, setdown, shame, shamefacedness, shamefastness, simplicity, slash, slump, smash, stumble, subtraction, tailspin, tumble, weakening, abasement, abatement, abridgment, alleviation, attenuation, break, breakdown, cave-in, cheapening, collapse, comedown, contraction, crash, cropper, cut, dampening, damping, debasement,

Synonyms

 * disinflation

Antonyms

 * inflation

Derived terms

 * deflationary

Translations

 * Bulgarian: дефлация
 * Croatian:
 * Dutch: deflatie
 * Estonian:
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 * Interlingua: deflation
 * Italian:
 * Polish:
 * Spanish: deflación
 * Swedish:
 * Vietnamese: (sự) giảm giá

Anagrams

 * defoliant