bout of inflation

collocation in English

meaningsofboutandinflation

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bout
noun[C]
uk
/baʊt/us
/baʊt/
a short period of illness or involvement in ...
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inflation
noun[U]
uk
/ɪnˈfleɪ.ʃən/us
/ɪnˈfleɪ.ʃən/
a general, continuous increase ...
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(Definition ofboutandinflationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The question is what happens if there is aboutofinflation(or deflation), which leads the price level to rise or fall.
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However, the miners' strike touched off a newboutofinflation.
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You have to make up your mind in relation to a particularboutofinflationwhether it is a cost push or a demand pull.
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He was reported to have said that a furtherboutofinflationwas clearly imminent.
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If we do not do that, we shall suffer anotherboutofinflation, with the usual results that we have come to know so well.
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Our current expectation is of another recession and another unwantedboutofinflation.
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We are in for anotherboutofinflation.
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I know that the country recognises that we cannot just surrender and give way to another torrentialboutofinflation.
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Only time will tell whether the miners' settlement will lead to a furtherboutofinflationand an acceleration in wage claims.
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We, oddly enough, have achieved no extra production but are about to embark on a freshboutofinflation.
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It may quite easily spark off anotherboutofinflation.
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There have been major effects, but it is not just one effect following that enormousboutofinflation.
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Also, we are suffering from the worstboutofinflationthat we have known for twenty years, with a consequent reduction in the standard of living.
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If the volume of our exports continues to fall, nothing can stop a fall in the standard of life in this country and another wildboutofinflation.
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This would increase the money supply and thus lead ultimately to a furtherboutofinflationso that our final state would be worse than our first.
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If the prices and incomes policy means anything, it must mean that if some reflation occurred, there would not need to be aboutofinflation.
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In particular, the fact that government spending was not significantly reduced in tandem with the liberalization program triggered a massiveboutofinflation.
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Huge quantities of mint stamps can be left over after aboutofinflation, a political overthrow or loss of a war.
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By 301, however, the system was in trouble, strained by a newboutofinflation.
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We have swung from bouts of inflation, with foreign difficulties, back to stagnation and a strong £.
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