See excuseflation in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
Download JSON data for excuseflation meaning in English (4.7kB)
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "Tracy Alloway and Joe Weisenthal",
"in": "2023",
"nobycat": "1",
"occ": "journalists",
"w": "Tracy Alloway (journalist)"
},
"expansion": "Coined by journalists Tracy Alloway and Joe Weisenthal in 2023",
"name": "coinage"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "excuse",
"3": "inflation"
},
"expansion": "Blend of excuse + inflation",
"name": "blend"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Coined by journalists Tracy Alloway and Joe Weisenthal in 2023 (see quotations below). Blend of excuse + inflation.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "excuseflation (uncountable)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English blends",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English neologisms",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Business",
"orig": "en:Business",
"parents": [
"Economics",
"Society",
"Social sciences",
"All topics",
"Sciences",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Economics",
"orig": "en:Economics",
"parents": [
"Social sciences",
"Sciences",
"Society",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Finance",
"orig": "en:Finance",
"parents": [
"Business",
"Economics",
"Society",
"Social sciences",
"All topics",
"Sciences",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"coordinate_terms": [
{
"english": "often synonymous",
"word": "greedflation"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2023 March 9, Tracy Alloway, Joe Weisenthal, “‘Excuseflation’ keeps prices and corporate profits high”, in Bloomberg",
"text": "The key question is, in an economy where the consumer continues to spend freely, how sticky this “excuseflation” proves to be and how high the Federal Reserve will have to drive up interest rates to prompt businesses to lower prices, or at least stop raising them.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2023 March 11, Cory Doctrow, “Excuseflation”, in Medium",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2023 March 18, B.D. Hobbs, ““Excuseflation” Is The New “Shrinkflation””, in KTRH Newsradio",
"text": "It's called, ‘Excuse-flation’, because most of the big brands are using inflation as an excuse, to keep their prices high.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2023 March 24, Daily Mail City, Finance Reporter, “INVESTING EXPLAINED: What you need to know about Excuseflation – a ploy by companies to hike prices, also known as greedflation”, in Mail Online",
"text": "These may be entirely legitimate reasons to raise prices but the companies engaging in excuseflation are seen as exploiting the situation.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2024 March 7, Enda Curran, “‘Shrinkflation’ and Other Terms for Inflationary Times”, in Bloomberg",
"text": "Excuseflation\nThe pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine both had material impacts on the availability of goods and services. […] Executives say they needed to pass along their own increased costs to protect their margins. Skeptics see excuses at play.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2024 March 12, Isabella Weber, quotee, “Isabella Weber: ‘It’s time to lower rates’”, in CE Noticias Financieras, English edition, Miami, translation of El Pais by Ignacio Fariza, “Isabella Weber: ‘Es hora de bajar tipos’”",
"text": "2020 was the first year that a lot of people saw shortage problems in supermarkets. In that situation we are also more likely to accept price increases. So yes, I think there is some excuseflation in that, in a context of shocks and emergencies, it changes the mindset of consumers.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The raising of the price of a good or service in the wake of an economic, political, or other social change that serves as an excuse for the rise."
],
"id": "en-excuseflation-en-noun-W1ZjqdnI",
"links": [
[
"business",
"business"
],
[
"finance",
"finance#Noun"
],
[
"economics",
"economics"
],
[
"price",
"price"
],
[
"economic",
"economic"
],
[
"political",
"political"
],
[
"excuse",
"excuse"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(business, finance, economics, neologism) The raising of the price of a good or service in the wake of an economic, political, or other social change that serves as an excuse for the rise."
],
"related": [
{
"word": "shrinkflation"
},
{
"word": "skimpflation"
}
],
"tags": [
"neologism",
"uncountable"
],
"topics": [
"business",
"economics",
"finance",
"science",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"word": "excuseflation"
}
{
"coordinate_terms": [
{
"english": "often synonymous",
"word": "greedflation"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "Tracy Alloway and Joe Weisenthal",
"in": "2023",
"nobycat": "1",
"occ": "journalists",
"w": "Tracy Alloway (journalist)"
},
"expansion": "Coined by journalists Tracy Alloway and Joe Weisenthal in 2023",
"name": "coinage"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "excuse",
"3": "inflation"
},
"expansion": "Blend of excuse + inflation",
"name": "blend"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Coined by journalists Tracy Alloway and Joe Weisenthal in 2023 (see quotations below). Blend of excuse + inflation.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "excuseflation (uncountable)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "shrinkflation"
},
{
"word": "skimpflation"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English blends",
"English coinages",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English neologisms",
"English nouns",
"English terms with quotations",
"English uncountable nouns",
"en:Business",
"en:Economics",
"en:Finance"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2023 March 9, Tracy Alloway, Joe Weisenthal, “‘Excuseflation’ keeps prices and corporate profits high”, in Bloomberg",
"text": "The key question is, in an economy where the consumer continues to spend freely, how sticky this “excuseflation” proves to be and how high the Federal Reserve will have to drive up interest rates to prompt businesses to lower prices, or at least stop raising them.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2023 March 11, Cory Doctrow, “Excuseflation”, in Medium",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2023 March 18, B.D. Hobbs, ““Excuseflation” Is The New “Shrinkflation””, in KTRH Newsradio",
"text": "It's called, ‘Excuse-flation’, because most of the big brands are using inflation as an excuse, to keep their prices high.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2023 March 24, Daily Mail City, Finance Reporter, “INVESTING EXPLAINED: What you need to know about Excuseflation – a ploy by companies to hike prices, also known as greedflation”, in Mail Online",
"text": "These may be entirely legitimate reasons to raise prices but the companies engaging in excuseflation are seen as exploiting the situation.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2024 March 7, Enda Curran, “‘Shrinkflation’ and Other Terms for Inflationary Times”, in Bloomberg",
"text": "Excuseflation\nThe pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine both had material impacts on the availability of goods and services. […] Executives say they needed to pass along their own increased costs to protect their margins. Skeptics see excuses at play.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2024 March 12, Isabella Weber, quotee, “Isabella Weber: ‘It’s time to lower rates’”, in CE Noticias Financieras, English edition, Miami, translation of El Pais by Ignacio Fariza, “Isabella Weber: ‘Es hora de bajar tipos’”",
"text": "2020 was the first year that a lot of people saw shortage problems in supermarkets. In that situation we are also more likely to accept price increases. So yes, I think there is some excuseflation in that, in a context of shocks and emergencies, it changes the mindset of consumers.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The raising of the price of a good or service in the wake of an economic, political, or other social change that serves as an excuse for the rise."
],
"links": [
[
"business",
"business"
],
[
"finance",
"finance#Noun"
],
[
"economics",
"economics"
],
[
"price",
"price"
],
[
"economic",
"economic"
],
[
"political",
"political"
],
[
"excuse",
"excuse"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(business, finance, economics, neologism) The raising of the price of a good or service in the wake of an economic, political, or other social change that serves as an excuse for the rise."
],
"tags": [
"neologism",
"uncountable"
],
"topics": [
"business",
"economics",
"finance",
"science",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"word": "excuseflation"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-16 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (e268c0e and 304864d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.