Definition of "unanchoring" [unanchoring]

• Present participle of unanchor. (verb)

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• "While they're at it, we'd love to know who invented the word "unanchoring," so we can congratulate him or her for his or her unanchored linguistic creativity."
• "The Fed "will strongly resist an erosion of longer-term inflation expectations, as an unanchoring of those expectations would be destabilizing for growth as well as for inflation," he said."
• "Mr. Bernanke told a conference hosted by the Boston Fed that "the latest round of increases in energy prices has added to the upside risks to inflation and inflation expectations," adding that the central bank "will strongly resist an erosion in longer-term expectations, as an unanchoring of those expectations would be destabilizing for growth as well as for inflation.""