Synonyms for deflation
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : dih-fley-shuh n |
Phonetic Transcription : dɪˈfleɪ ʃən |
Top 10 synonyms for deflation Other synonyms for the word deflation
- abbreviating
- abbreviation
- abridging
- abridgment
- accounting allowance
- anticlimax
- bad times
- bear market
- big trouble
- blow
- bottom out
- bottom-out
- bust
- comeuppance
- compression
- condensation
- condensing
- confinement
- confining
- constriction
- crash
- crisis
- cropper
- curtailing
- curtailment
- cutting down
- decreasing
- defeat
- deflating
- demotion
- depression
- descent
- devaluation
- diminishing
- diminution
- disappointment
- discomfiture
- dislocation
- dive
- down
- downfall
- drawing together
- drop
- dwindling
- elision
- evaporating
- evaporation
- failure
- fall
- flop
- humiliation
- inactivity
- lessening
- lopping
- loss of value
- narrowing
- omission
- omitting
- overproduction
- panic
- paralysis
- pratfall
- rainy days
- receding
- reducing
- reduction
- retrenchment
- reverse
- ruin
- sag
- setback
- shrinkage
- shrinking
- shrivelling
- slide
- slowness
- slump
- stagflation
- stagnation
- tensing
- tightening
- undoing
- unemployment
- withdrawal
- withdrawing
- wreck
- write-down
Définition of deflation
Origin :- 1891, "release of air," from deflate + -ion. In reference to currency or economic situations, from 1920.
- As in recession : noun reversal of action; reduction of business activity
- As in markdown : noun depreciation
- As in comedown : noun letdown, blow
- As in contraction : noun drawing in; shortening
- As in depreciation : noun devaluation
- As in depression : noun economic decline
- Three pairs of lungs sighed audibly in process of deflation.
- Extract from : « The Range Boss » by Charles Alden Seltzer
- It was led down the path of deflation, which the IMF has plunged half the world into.
- Extract from : « After the Rain » by Sam Vaknin
- Deflation, on the other hand, is usually a much shorter period.
- Extract from : « After the Rain » by Sam Vaknin
- They had turned his deflation into antagonism, his ignorance into distrust.
- Extract from : « Assassin » by Jesse Franklin Bone
- Industry during the period of deflation goes through a process like that of an over-fat man taking a Turkish bath.
- Extract from : « Success (Second Edition) » by Max Aitken Beaverbrook
- There was a concerted stiffening of bodies, a general sigh from lungs in process of deflation.
- Extract from : « 'Drag' Harlan » by Charles Alden Seltzer
- All of us can see M'Clare is doing a job of deflation on us for reasons of his own, but it works for all that.
- Extract from : « The Lost Kafoozalum » by Pauline Ashwell
- An army of men strove to hold her fast, while an effort was made to reduce her bulk by deflation.
- Extract from : « Aircraft and Submarines » by Willis J. Abbot.
- This it has succeeded in doing, both during the war and in the more difficult period of deflation and readjustment which followed.
- Extract from : « State of the Union Addresses of Calvin Coolidge » by Calvin Coolidge
- This is a deflation in certain sectors of the economy or in certain territories of the globe – but not in others.
- Extract from : « After the Rain » by Sam Vaknin
Antonyms for deflation
- accomplishment
- achievement
- advance
- amplification
- ascent
- attainment
- boon
- boost
- building
- bulge
- calm
- cheerfulness
- convexity
- creation
- dilation
- elevation
- encouragement
- enlargement
- expansion
- extension
- fortune
- good fortune
- happiness
- hope
- hopefulness
- improvement
- increase
- lengthening
- opening
- promotion
- protuberance
- recovery
- rise
- spread
- stretch
- success
- surge
- triumph
- win
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