stagflation

1. 1.

   a period of slow economic growth and high unemployment (stagnation) while prices rise (inflation)

   Broaderinflation

Other forms of stagflation

plural

stagflations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about stagflation

What does stagflation mean?

stagflation means "a period of slow economic growth and high unemployment (stagnation) while prices rise (inflation)".

How many syllables are in stagflation?

stagflation has 3 syllables: stag-fla-tion. The stress falls on "fla". In IPA it is /stæɡˈfleɪʃən/.

Is stagflation a common word?

stagflation 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.

What rhymes with stagflation?

4 words rhyme with stagflation. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.