0 present participle of deflate
1 If something that has air or gas inside it deflates, or is deflated, it becomes smaller because it loses the air or gas:
3 to reduce the supply of money in an economy
This is done by either 'deflating' using market exchange rates or purchasing power parities.
But, as a factor deflating fertility, this is of less importance than it has been in the past.
The profit markup is measured by deflating industrial output price by industrial nominal wage.
This could have resulted in inflating or deflating the rates of foetal deaths.
Is it proper to measure real interest rates by deflating current nominal rates by an ex post, and often transitory, annual change in the deflator?
Is it wise for the two greatest importing nations of the world to be thus depressing and deflating economically the rest of the free world?
But we were agreed about some kind of disinflation, although the right method of deflating eluded us.
The easy way of bringing down inflation is by deflating the way in which it is assessed.
