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excuseflation

noun

Etymology

Coined by journalists Tracy Alloway and Joe Weisenthal in 2023 (see quotations below). Blend of excuse + inflation.

  1. derived from īnflātiō
  2. derived from inflation
  3. compounded as excuseflation — “excuse + inflation”

Definitions

  1. The raising of the price of a good or service in the wake of an economic, political, or…

    The raising of the price of a good or service in the wake of an economic, political, or other social change that serves as a justification for the rise.

    • The power of excuseflation is that it allows apologists to, well, make excuses. When egg prices shot up in January, Big Egg was able to blame it all on bird-flu.
    • It's called, ‘Excuse-flation’, because most of the big brands are using inflation as an excuse, to keep their prices high.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA