Definition of "reflate" [reflate]

• To reinflate, to inflate again. (verb)
• To restore the general level of prices to a previous or desirable level. (verb)

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• "If so, it doesn't follow that it would now be desirable for the Fed to "reflate" simply to make life easier for those who made leveraged bets on flipping condos (or gold coins) to some greater fool who failed to showed up after higher interest rates on cash made it more attractive at the margin to hold more cash."
• "The explanation for this anomaly is that the Fed's $4.6 trillion added by quantitative easing fell far short of the estimated $10 trillion needed to "reflate" the money supply after the "shadow lenders" disappeared."
• "Governments have tried to "reflate" their flagging economies by throwing budget-crippling sums at the banks, but the banks have not deigned to pass those funds on to businesses and consumers as loans."