runaway inflation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofrunawayandinflation
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runaway
adjective
uk/ˈrʌn.ə.weɪ/us/ˈrʌn.ə.weɪ/
having escaped or run away ...
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inflation
noun[U]
uk/ɪnˈfleɪ.ʃən/us/ɪnˈfleɪ.ʃən/
a general, continuous increase ...
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(Definition ofrunawayandinflationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Wages have not only been severely eroded byrunawayinflation, but there has also been substantial wage compression between the lowest and highest paid in the civil service.
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The experience of the last 40 years suggests that independent central banks, with a mandate to ensure price stability, provide insurance againstrunawayinflationor deflation.
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I believe that we are heading for realrunawayinflationin this country.
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If it is unwisely persisted in, it can have only one end—namely, arunawayinflation.
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That isrunawayinflationif you like.
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This is serious, but it is not therunawayinflationthat threatened us last year.
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They have not been able to stabilise finances, because the country is in the grip of arunawayinflation.
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I am not very frightened of arunawayinflation.
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Exactly the same applied to gas bills and other prices that pensioners and people on fixed incomes had to meet because ofrunawayinflation.
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But something has to be done, some policy has to be adopted which has teeth in it, to stop the presentrunawayinflation.
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In the special circumstances of a risk of arunawayinflationexisting today, we believe that to be sound policy and a real necessity.
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They must understand whatrunawayinflationcaused by their policies in the past means for people in those circumstances.
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We cannot do that, however, if there is the slightest risk of arunawayinflation.
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Therunawayinflationof the 1970s must not be allowed to reappear.
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It has certainly put a stop to therunawayinflationthat would have happened if we had not had an effective pay policy.
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There seem to be only four avenues of relief for these rising prices, the increasing cost of living and incipientrunawayinflation.
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In the 1970s and 1980s we allowedrunawayinflation.
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I am not suggesting that there is likely to be in this country arunawayinflation.
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Any suggestion that we are in, or are even moving towards, a period ofrunawayinflationis not only nonsense, but extremely dangerous nonsense.
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It is quite true that therunawayinflationis not with us today, for a variety of reasons.
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