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Inflation rate

Inflation rate, the pace of change in the prices of goods and services in a particular period. The primary indexes for measuring the rate are the Consumer Price Index and the Producer Price Index, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 782....


inflation

inflation the number of dollars in circulation exceeds the amount of goods and services available for purchase; inflation results in a decrease in the dollar's value. Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ...


Inflater

One who or that which inflates as the inflaters of the stock exchange...


Inflation

The act or process of inflating or the state of being inflated as with air or gas distention expansion enlargement...


Rate

Rate, A contribution levied by some public body for a public purpose, as a poor rate, a highway rate, a sewers rate, upon, as a general rule, the occupiers of property within a parish or other area.Proportional or relative value; the proportion of which quantity or value is adjusted, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1268.The term 'rate' is also used to mean a charge by a water, gas, railway, or other public undertaking for services rendered e.g., (English) Railways Act, 1921, s. 20; Metropolitan Water Board Charges Act, 1921 (11 & 12 Geo. 5, c. xciv.).The poor rate was levied under the (English) Poor Relief Act, 1601 (43 Eliz. s. 2), on the occupiers in each parish of 'lands, houses, tithes, coal mines, or saleable underwoods,' and the (English) Rating Act, 1874, extended the liability to rates to: (1) land used for a plantation or a wood, or for the growth of saleable underwood, and not subject to any right of common; (2) rights of fowling, shooting, taking, or killing game, or ra...


inflation coverage

inflation coverage endorsement to a homeowner's policy that automatically adjusts the amount of insurance to compensate for inflationary rises in the home's value. This type of coverage does not adjust for increases in the home's value due to improvements. Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ...


Inflatable

That may be inflated...


Inflate

Blown in inflated...


Inflated

Filled as with air or gas blown up distended as a balloon inflated with gas...


Inflatingly

In a manner tending to inflate...


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