(nautical) A boat or dinghy that may be inflated when needed. / Any other structure, artwork etc. that is inflated.

An act, instance of, or state of expansion or increase in size, especially by injection of a gas. / (economics) An increase in the quantity of money, leading to a devaluation of existing money.

(transitive) To enlarge an object by pushing air (or a gas) into it; to raise or expand abnormally / (intransitive) To enlarge by filling with air (or a gas). / (figuratively) To swell; to puff up.

simple past tense and past participle of inflate

Filled with air or fluid / Expanded; in a state of inflation, of abnormally increased size, amount, etc. / (economics): In a state of higher cost. / (figuratively) Pompous; arrogant (of a person or ego)

The quality of being inflatable.

(education) A gradual upward trend in grades awarded to students during the decades since the mid-20th century, reported in a number of countries and at a number of levels of schooling and sometimes offered as evidence of a decline in academic standards.

plural of core inflation

(economics) Inflation excluding the increase or decrease of prices in some sectors (usually food and energy). / (economics, in the Eurozone) Inflation excluding energy, food, alcohol and tobacco prices.

(biology) An increase in the number of species that is not caused by new discoveries, but by changes in the classification of existing organisms.