Why, half a dozen young coxcombs come here just as regularly every afternoon between three and five.
The President’s plans for regulated deflation came to naught.
At the present writing, world industry is going through a process of deflation from the high prices induced by the war.
Deflation basins, called blowouts, are hollows formed by the removal of particles by wind.
Almost half of the Earth's desert surfaces are stony deflation zones.
Most eolian deflation zones are composed of desert pavement, a sheetlike surface of rock fragments that remains after wind and water have removed the fine particles.
The most outstanding sign of this was the abandonment of restrictions on the minting of copper coin, in order to prevent deflation through insufficiency of payment media.
So long as there was an orderly administration, the government could send it money, though at considerable cost; but if the administration was not functioning well, the deflation continued.
Later, when there was a metal coinage, this cycle of inflation and deflationbecame still clearer.
This Congress already has taken cognizance of the misfortune which precipitate deflation brought to American agriculture.
Deflation of government after a war period is slower than deflation of business, where curtailment is either prompt and effective or disaster follows.
The continuing credit paralysis has operated to accentuate the deflation and liquidation of commodities, real estate, and securities below any reasonable basis of values.
This it has succeeded in doing, both during the war and in the more difficult period of deflation and readjustment which followed.
It would mean a general shrinkage of values, a deflation of prices, a reduction of wages, a general depression carrying our people down to the low standard of living in our competing countries.
But when in the history of American business was there such a volume of broken faith as in the drastic deflation of 1920?
In the recent deflation in commodity values, there was widespread "welching" among business men who had theretofore been classed as reputable.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "deflation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
