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Agflation is a newspaper blend-word for a general rise in the price of food — rice, vegetables, meat and so on all getting more expensive together. It joins agricultural (to do with farming) and inflation (prices rising), on the same pattern as stagflation. You will meet it in business and news writing, not at the night market. A would just say food is getting so expensive. Though actually, it points at farm and food prices in particular, not at every price in the shops. If petrol and phones go up but cabbages do not, that is not what this word is for.
農業通膨、糧食通膨(新聞用語,指食品價格全面上漲)
組成Blend of agricultural + inflation; compare stagflation.
同家族的字
- inflationthe second half: prices rising
- agriculturalthe first half, shortened to ag-: to do with farming
- stagflationthe same kind of blend: a news word built from inflation
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
agflationnoun/æɡˈfleɪ.ʃən/
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informalAn increase in the price of food crops, especially due to increased demand, and to diversification into the production of biomass
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。