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Definition of hyperinflation
: inflation growing at a very high rate in a very short time; also : a period of hyperinflation
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The president who pays cash in advance Eight years after the Zimbabwe stopped using its own currency in to end a period of hyperinflation, government policies have caused an acute cash crisis.
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Zimbabwe, which abandoned its own currency eight years ago and adopted mainly the dollar in a bid to halt hyperinflation, is contending with a shortage of cash, with banks limiting customer withdrawals.
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Salaries have been wiped out with hyperinflation and millions have been left hungry, malnourished and scouring through the garbage for food.
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At one point, the Iranian rial fell by up to 80%, the price of basic goods skyrocketed and the economy suffered a period of hyperinflation.
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Populists Pay Venezuela has expropriated more than a half dozen foreign companies and is by some estimates caught in its own period of hyperinflation.
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Today, Venezuela suffers from hyperinflation that might hit 1,660 percent this year, according to International Monetary Fund estimates.
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The email was a bit extreme, perhaps, with references to the hyperinflation of Weimar Germany, Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe and the Book of Genesis.
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First Known Use of hyperinflation
1930
HYPERINFLATION Defined for English Language Learners
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Definition of hyperinflation for English Language Learners
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: extremely rapid increase in the price of goods and services : extremely rapid economic inflation
Medical Dictionary
hyperinflation
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hy·per·in·fla·tion
\ˌhī-pə-rin-ˈflā-shən\
Medical Definition of hyperinflation
: excessive inflation (as of the lungs)
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