anti-inflation

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

anti- +‎ inflation

Adjective

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

  1. That counteracts inflation.
    • 1996, Robert J. Donovan, Conflict and Crisis: The Presidency of Harry S. Truman, 1945-1948‎:
      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
  • 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
  1. (antiinflation*6),anti-inflation at Google Ngram Viewer
  2. 6. Compounding Rules in U.S. Government Printing Office Style Manual, govinfo.gov
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