HYPERINFLATION | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

Meaning of hyperinflation in English

(Definition of hyperinflation from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
(Definition of hyperinflation from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of hyperinflation

hyperinflation
My 1973 and 1977 papers on rational expectations and hyperinflation tackled a more difficult problem.
As a result, when hyperinflation ended, banks had to start a painful restructuring process although some banks had enough foresight to start adjusting before.
The fact that his dissertation work on hyperinflation became his peak achievement bothered him.
In the presence of hyperinflation, currency substitution may have positive effects.
They point out that the emergency context of hyperinflation granted the government the necessary political strength to undertake a process of policy innovation.
The culprits created conduit political banks for siphoning public resources to fund political activities, which plunged the country into hyperinflation.
The crisis has been manifested in unemployment, retrenchment, hyperinflation, and consequent decline of living standards.
In particular, the model could display hyperinflation with a constant money supply!
Payment in kind was replacing cash wages owing to the currency devaluation caused by the hyperinflation crisis.
Such language took on many variations during the war, the revolution and the period of hyperinflation.
Their priority was not to protect local communities from either the occupying forces or the post-war crime wave fed by hyperinflation and generalised penury.
In periods of rapid inflation or hyperinflation, nominal prices vary substantially between seasons.
However, each of these will lead to sensible index number comparisons in the presence of hyperinflation.
Pensioners, professionals, local clerks and professors in particular had to suffer under the losses of war and hyperinflation.
Alternatively, others95'105 have determined that entry to the pleural space will result in decreased compliance and an increased alveolar-arterial oxygen gradient, but that this can be overcome with static hyperinflation.
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Translations of hyperinflation

in Chinese (Traditional)
極度通貨膨脹,惡性通貨膨脹…
in Chinese (Simplified)
极度通货膨胀,恶性通货膨胀…
in Spanish
hiperinflación…
in Portuguese
hiperinflação…
in more languages
in Polish
hiperinflacja…
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