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anti-inflation

English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From anti- ‎ inflation.

Adjective

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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[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

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  • 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

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