[rɪˈfleɪt], (Verb)

Definitions:
- expand the level of output of (an economy) by government stimulus, using either fiscal or monetary policy
(e.g: Western states pressured Schmidt to reflate the West German economy faster)


Phrases:

Origin:
early 20th century (in sense ‘inflate a balloon or tyre again’): from re- ‘again’, on the pattern of inflate, deflate. The modern sense dates from the 1930s