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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

noun Sluggish economic growth coupled with a high rate of inflation and unemployment.

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noun economics Inflation accompanied by stagnant growth, unemployment or recession.

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noun a period of slow economic growth and high unemployment (stagnation) while prices rise (inflation)

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[stag(nation) + (in)flation.]

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Blend of stagnation and inflation

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That's when the word stagflation was invented to describe a truly ugly combination of rising inflation and stunted growth...

Sheldon Filger: Former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker Urgently Warns Against "Planned" Inflation Sheldon Filger 2011
The term stagflation is generally attributed to United Kingdom Chancellor of the Exchequer, Iain MacLeod in a speech to parliament in 1965.www. carlostmock.com

The Sad State of Our Republic 2008
The economic downturn has a lot of people throwing around the term stagflation, something we haven't heard for quite a while.

CNN Transcript Jul 17, 2008 2008
The term stagflation is used to describe the policy-challenging combination of a stagnating economy at a time of rising inflation.

Europe Economies Slow, 2008
That's when the word stagflation was invented to describe a truly ugly combination of rising inflation and stunted growth.

NYT > Home Page By PAUL A. VOLCKER 2011
"That's when the word stagflation was invented to describe a truly ugly combination of rising inflation and stunted growth."

BusinessWeek.com -- Top News 2011
That's when the word stagflation was invented to describe a truly ugly combination of rising inflation and stunted growth.

NYT > Home Page By PAUL A. VOLCKER 2011
That's when the word stagflation was invented to describe a truly ugly combination of rising inflation and stunted growth.

Forbes.com: News Daniel J. Mitchell 2011
That's when the word stagflation was invented to describe a truly ugly combination of rising inflation and stunted growth.

NYT > Home Page By PAUL A. VOLCKER 2011
"That's when the word stagflation was invented to describe a truly ugly combination of rising inflation and stunted growth."

BusinessWeek.com -- Top News 2011
As a result people on the Street have begun to talk about the return of stagflation – rising unemployment and prices – a phenomenon associated with the 1970s.

Ignore the fearmongers: the 1970s are not coming back | Edward Berkowitz Edward Berkowitz 2021

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kewpid commented on the word stagflation

The dubious honour of increasing inflation and unemployment, such as during the 1970s oil shocks.

September 24, 2007
kewpid commented on the word stagflation

I don't think it is possible to coin a word of enough scariness to describe what is happening in the economy here.

November 14, 2007
reesetee commented on the word stagflation

Kewpid, you're in Australia, right?

November 15, 2007
kewpid commented on the word stagflation

Yup. I meant 'here' as in when stagflation happens, not in Australia :P

November 15, 2007
reesetee commented on the word stagflation

Ah! Okay, got it.

November 15, 2007
TankHughes commented on the word stagflation

I always think this is a spoonerism for flag station.

January 30, 2016
bilby commented on the word stagflation

She has a point.

January 31, 2016