Meanings of inflate the value in English

They allege that senior figures at Petrobras conspired with construction companies to inflate the value of contracts.

The central bank in recent weeks detected signs of accounting irregularities that were used to inflate the value of Panamericano's assets.

Martin-Artajo is expected to face criminal charges for trying to inflate the value of trading positions held on his group's books.

The source said PanAmericano was selling parts of its loan portfolio to rivals without booking the transactions, in order to inflate the value of assets.

Langdale said journalists had a habit of over- inflating the value of their stories.

The company and its finance chief materially inflated the value of inventory, the SEC said.

The hikes stemmed from the weaker yen, which inflates the value of earnings garnered overseas.

It was especially concerned that "cashback" mortgages were artificially inflating the value of properties.

The SEC said DeYoung concealed the losses by issuing statements that inflated the value of customers' accounts.

Granting permissions for their own endeavours vastly inflated the value of their holdings, along with the resulting homes.

By inflating the values, ICP created windfall profits for itself and swelled its management fees, the lawsuit argues.

Investors welcome a weaker yen as it inflates the value of overseas profits when they are brought back home.

Since they're both exchanging services, what happens is one or the other side inflates the value of what it's exchanging.

Regulators alleged that a Morgan Keegan star fund manager at the time, James Kelsoe, deliberately inflated the value of the subprime securities.

The consultancy, in a scathing statement, accused the cited publication of inflating the value of the tender and "sensationalist reporting".

If the judge found that outside factors inflated the value of the Hamm estate, Harold would keep the lion's share of the enhanced value.