  Generating entanglement between more parties is one of the central tasks and
challenges in the backdrop of building quantum technologies. Here we propose a
measurement-based protocol for producing multipartite entangled states which
can be later fed into some network for realizing suitable quantum protocols. We
consider weak entangling measurement on two parties as the basic unit of
operation to create entanglement between more parties starting from an
entangled state with a lesser number of parties and auxiliary systems in the
form of a single-qubit or entangled state itself. We call the introduced
expansion procedure, "multipartite entanglement inflation". In the context of
inflating bipartite entanglement to more number of parties, surprisingly,
maximally entangled states as inputs turn out to be worse than that of the
non-maximally entangled states, Haar uniformly generated pure states having a
moderate amount of entanglement and the Werner state with a certain threshold
noise. We also report that the average multipartite entanglement created from
the initial Greenberger Horne Zeilinger- and the W- class states are almost
same. Interestingly, we also observe that for Haar uniformly generated pure
states, unentangled auxiliary systems are sometimes more advantageous than the
protocol with multiple copies of the initial entangled states.
