rising prices

Questions about rising prices

What does rising prices mean?

rising prices means "a general and progressive increase in prices".

What is another word for rising prices?

Close synonyms include inflation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is rising prices a common word?

rising prices is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.