noun
- a device or tool used to fill something with air or gas
- a person or thing that causes prices, values, or quantities to increase artificially
Usage: economics
Examples
- She used a tire inflater to fill her bicycle tires.
- The electric inflater made it easy to blow up the air mattress.
- He packed a portable inflater for the camping trip.
- The balloon inflater at the party ran out of helium.
- Critics called the policy an inflater of housing prices.
- The manual inflater required more effort than the electric one.