What does inflatable mean?

Answer 1

to cause to expand or distend with air or gas

Answer 2

Inflation is a continuous rise in the price of goods and services.

The effect of Inflation is the increase of prices for goods and services within an economy. The cause of inflation in an increase in an economies capital (paper money) in circulation, where the value of money decrease and prices go up.

A persistent, substantial rise in the general level of prices related to an increase in the volume of money and resulting in the loss of value of currency.

In other contexts it means to increase the volume by air. When breathing in, you inflate your lungs.
Inflation is a general and progressive increase in prices.

Answer 3

It means the process of being inflated. of being filled up with air. So, you could say "This needle is for the inflation of basketballs". But its much more common use nowadays is not literal, but figurative, and refers to the decline in the purchasing power of money. That is, inflation is the process whereby money loses value over time, as a result of the pressures both to raise prices to increase profit for producers and raise incomes to increase purchasing power for consumers.

Answer 4

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/inflated