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deflation

/dih-fley-shuhn/US // dɪˈfleɪ ʃən //UK // (dɪˈfleɪʃən) //

通货紧缩,通缩,通货收缩,通货缩减

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of deflating or the state of being deflated.
    • : Economics. a fall in the general price level or a contraction of credit and available money.Compare disinflation.
    • : the erosion of sand, soil, etc., by the action of the wind.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as incomedown
as incontraction
Synonyms
decrease减少,降低,下降,下跌recession衰退期,衰退,不景气,经济衰退reduction减少,削减,缩减,降低shrinkage缩水,缩减,缩水率,萎缩abbreviation缩略语,缩略词,缩略,简称abridgment节略,删节,节选,节略语compression压缩,压缩器,压缩率,压缩空气condensation凝结,冷凝,凝结物,凝结水condensing冷凝,冷凝式,冷凝式的confinement囚禁,拘禁,监禁,拘束constriction压迫,收缩,压迫感,缩减curtailment缩减,缩减开支,削减,缩水diminution缩减,缩水,减弱,减少dwindling逐渐减少,逐渐减少的,越来越少,越来越少的elision辩解,辩才,辩称,延伸evaporation挥发,蒸发,气化,蒸发作用lessening减轻,减弱,减缓,减少narrowing狭窄化,缩小,狭窄的,缩窄omission遗漏,疏漏,不作为,疏忽receding减退,减退的,退行,退缩reducing减少,降低,削减,减少了shrinking缩减,缩水,萎缩,收缩tightening收紧,紧缩,收缩,紧固withdrawal撤回,退出,撤出,撤销abbreviating缩略语,缩略词,缩略,缩略号abridging删节,删减,缩减,缩略语confining拘束的,拘束,拘束性的,拘拘束束curtailing缩减,削减,缩减的,缩减开支cutting down削减,砍伐,伐木,砍掉decreasing减少,逐渐减少,递减,越来越少deflating放气,放气的,放气机,放气式diminishing逐渐减少,递减,越来越少,逐渐减少的drawing together齐心协力,齐心合力,共同绘制omitting省略,遗漏,省略了,省略的tensing绷紧,紧张,紧绷,紧张的withdrawing撤回,退出,提取,撤出
as indepression

Examples

  • The pad also comes with new valves that allow for quick inflation and deflation, in case you’re in a rush.

  • Look at the wild swings back and forth between inflation and deflation back in the day.

  • Many come with built-in motors for quick inflation and deflation.

  • Much of the eurozone, in fact, went into the deflation zone last month.

  • Japan’s economy didn’t skyrocket under his leadership, but overall it grew modestly after two preceding decades of deflation.

  • When an economy suffers deflation, as Japan has done for several years, nobody has any incentive to spend money today.

  • The basic idea behind austerity is that deflation via government cuts will rein in budget deficits and sovereign debt.

  • Deflation also means that the economy adjusts to real shocks in the most disruptive way possible.

  • I join most economists in thinking that deflation is bad, and it will be good if Japan can stop it.

  • But if inflation is negative--i.e., if they have deflation--then they have to do something more drastic.

  • Three pairs of lungs sighed audibly in process of deflation.

  • There was a concerted stiffening of bodies, a general sigh from lungs in process of deflation.

  • The Presidents plans for regulated deflation came to naught.

  • Later, when there was a metal coinage, this cycle of inflation and deflation became still clearer.

  • Occasionally a region with an adverse balance of trade would lose all its copper money, with the result of a local deflation.