anti-inflationary

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English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From anti- +‎ inflationary.

Adjective

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anti-inflationary (comparative more anti-inflationary, superlative most anti-inflationary)

  1. (economics) Intended to counteract or reverse inflation or its effects.
    A number of anti-inflationary policies were discussed by the Fed.

Usage notes

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  • anti-inflationary is several times more common than antiinflationary in print.[1] GPO manual recommends using a hyphen to avoid doubling a vowel except after short prefixes.[2]

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References

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  1. ^ (antiinflationary *6),anti-inflationary at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
  2. ^ 6. Compounding Rules in U.S. Government Printing Office Style Manual, govinfo.gov
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