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US
/ˌdɪsɪnˈfɫeɪʃən/
]
[ UK /dˌɪsɪnflˈeɪʃən/ ]
[ UK /dˌɪsɪnflˈeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
- a reduction of prices intended to improve the balance of payments
How To Use disinflation In A Sentence
- Yet a sharp recent retreat in commodity prices, which has seen oil prices plunge some $20 in just three weeks to around $68, suggests the disinflation trend is likely to persist.
- We face continued disinflationary forces. Times, Sunday Times
- After all, interest rate setting has its ambiguities too - do lower rates imply expansionary policy or simply a validation of disinflationary pressures?
- More than a decade of inflation and disinflation followed in the major developed countries and many developing countries.
- And even now the employment survey has shown that we have created 500,000 jobs since January, and to the point where we now see that disinflation or deflation is off of the horizon.
- There are signs, however, that other disinflationary forces are starting to dissipate. Times, Sunday Times
- Central bankers are worried that there are other factors at work that could prove persistently disinflationary. Times, Sunday Times
- Disinflation makes inflationary expectations fade, leading to more disinflation, whereupon inflationary expectations fade more.
- A common mistake is to assume that falling export prices mean that China is exporting disinflation, whereas rising export prices imply it is exporting inflation.
- Even if productivity growth is usually seen as disinflationary — a concern for policy makers worried about deflation — "it could be welcome as an offset to the risk of commodity price inflation," he said. Productivity May Slow in 2011