stagflation

English

Etymology

Blend of stagnation +‎ inflation, generally attributed to Iain Macleod who used in a 1965 speech.

Noun

stagflation (countable and uncountable, plural stagflations)

1. (economics) Inflation accompanied by stagnant growth, unemployment or recession.
   • 2013, George R. Tyler, What Went Wrong: The Big Picture: How the 1% Hijacked the American Middle Class … and What Other Countries Got Right, BenBella Books, Inc. (→ISBN)

     Moving into the mid-1970s, America's economic performance suffered. Stagflation—inflation combined with minimal economic growth—eroded wages and profits, weakening business and consumer confidence.

Translations

inflation accompanied by stagnant growth

• Arabic: الركود التضخمي
• Basque: estanflazio
• Bulgarian: стагфлация f (stagflacija)
• Catalan: estagflació f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 停滯性通貨膨脹／停滞性通货膨胀 (tíngzhìxìng tōnghuò péngzhàng), 停滞性通货膨胀 (tíngzhì xìng tōnghuòpéngzhàng)

• Czech: stagflace (cs) f
• Danish: stagflation
• Dutch: stagflatie (nl) f
• Esperanto: stagflacio
• Estonian: stagflatsioon (et)
• Finnish: stagflaatio (fi)
• French: stagflation (fr) f
• Galician: estanflación f
• German: Stagflation (de) f
• Greek: στασιμοπληθωρισμός (el) m (stasimoplithorismós)
• Hungarian: stagfláció
• Italian: stagflazione (it) f
• Japanese: スタグフレーション (sutagufurēshiyon)
• Korean: 스태그플레이션 (seutaegeupeulleisyeon)
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• Latvian: stagflācija f
• Lithuanian: stagfliacija f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: stagflasjon (no) m

  Nynorsk: stagflasjon m

• Polish: stagflacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: estagflação f
• Romanian: stagflație (ro) f
• Russian: стагфляция (ru) f (stagfljacija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: стагфлација f

  Roman: stagflacija (sh) f

• Slovak: stagflácia f
• Slovene: stagflacija f
• Spanish: estanflación f
• Swedish: stagflation (sv)
• Turkish: stagflasyon (tr)
• Ukrainian: стагфляція f (stahfljacija)

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French

Etymology

From the verb stagner and the noun inflation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /staɡ.fla.sjɔ̃/

• Audio:

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• Homophone: stagflations

Noun

stagflation f (plural stagflations)

1. stagflation

References

• “stagflation”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Further reading

• “stagflation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.