The state of being expensive; the entailing of great expense.
An increase in the general level of prices or in the cost of living.
An extremely rapid expansion of the universe, theorized to have occurred very shortly after the Big Bang.
An increase in the quantity of money, leading to a devaluation of existing money.
A decline in the value of money.
Undue expansion or increase, as of academic grades.
An act, instance of, or state of expansion or increase in size, especially by injection of a gas.