anti-inflation
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English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]anti-inflation (comparative more anti-inflation, superlative most anti-inflation)
- That counteracts inflation.
- 1996, Robert J. Donovan, Conflict and Crisis: The Presidency of Harry S. Truman, 1945-1948[1]:
- During the hearings Snyder got into a dispute with Marriner Eccles, head of the Federal Reserve, opposing an antiinflation plan Eccles had devised — with unfortunate consequences for Eccles, as it turned out.
Usage notes
[edit]- anti-inflation is several times more common than antiinflation in print.[1] GPO manual recommends using a hyphen to avoid doubling a vowel except after short prefixes.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ (antiinflation*6),anti-inflation at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
- ^ 6. Compounding Rules in U.S. Government Printing Office Style Manual, govinfo.gov