stagflation

English

Etymology

Blend of stagnation +‎ inflation, generally attributed to Iain Macleod who used it in a 1965 speech.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /stæɡˈfleɪʃən/
    • Audio (UK)(file)

Noun

stagflation (countable and uncountable, plural stagflations)

  1. (economics) Inflation accompanied by stagnant growth, unemployment or recession.
    • 1995, Anthony S. Campagna, Economic Policy in the Carter Administration‎, page 204:
      Since no one had the solutions to stagflation, Carter, a fiscal conservative from the beginning, was thrown back to his personal bias and chose to elevate inflation to the nation's most pressing problem.
    • 2013, George R. Tyler, What Went Wrong: The Big Picture: How the 1% Hijacked the American Middle Class … and What Other Countries Got Right, BenBella Books, Inc., →ISBN:
      Moving into the mid-1970s, America's economic performance suffered. Stagflation—inflation combined with minimal economic growth—eroded wages and profits, weakening business and consumer confidence.

Derived terms

Translations

References
  1. Olga Kornienko, Grinin L, Ilyin I, Herrmann P, Korotayev A (2016), “Social and Economic Background of Blending”, in Globalistics and Globalization Studies: Global Transformations and Global Future‎, Uchitel Publishing House, →ISBN, pages 220–225

French

Etymology

From the verb stagner and the noun inflation.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /staɡ.fla.sjɔ̃/
  • Audio(file)
  • Homophone: stagflations

Noun

stagflation f (plural stagflations)

  1. stagflation

Further reading

Swedish

Etymology

Blend of stagnation +‎ inflation, probably influenced by English stagflation.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /staɡflaˈɧuːn/

Noun

stagflation c (countable and uncountable)

  1. (economics) stagflation

Declension
Declension of stagflation 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative stagflation stagflationen stagflationer stagflationerna
Genitive stagflations stagflationens stagflationers stagflationernas

Derived terms
  • stagflationsekonomi

References
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