Definition of Devaluate

1. Verb. Remove the value from; deprive of its value.

Exact synonyms: Devalue
Generic synonyms: Cheapen, Degrade
Specialized synonyms: Demonetise, Demonetize
Derivative terms: Devaluation, Devaluation

2. Verb. Lose in value. "The dollar depreciated again"

Definition of Devaluate

1. Verb. (transitive) To reduce in value. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Devaluate

1. [v -ATED, -ATING, -ATES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Devaluate

deutzias
deva
devachan
devachanic
devacuumization
devadasi
devadasis
devall
devalled
devalling
devalls
devalorize
devalorized
devalorizes
devalorizing
devaluate (current term)
devaluated
devaluates
devaluating
devaluation
devaluations
devalue
devalued
devalueing
devaluer
devaluers
devalues
devaluing
devan
devanned

Literary usage of Devaluate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. International Migration Outlook by OECD (2006)
"For example, Algeria started to devaluate the dinar after 1985 and consequently its value dropped from 5 dinars a dollar in 1985 to 9 dinars a dollar in ..."

2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1844)
"... imports from the sterling bloc countries, and imports from countries which recently refused to devaluate meet with correspondingly greater obstacles. ..."

3. Aviation Accident Investigations: Hearing Before the Committee on Commerce edited by John McCain (1999)
"THe NTSB RECOMMENDS that the National Weather Service: devaluate, in cooperation with FAA, the CWSU program, & develop procedures to enable meteorologist to ..."

4. The Health Gap: Beyond Pregnancy and Reproduction by Jennifer Kitts, Janet Hatcher Roberts (1996)
"The feminization of occupations traditionally carried out by men tends to devaluate them (Acevedo 1994). Women's perceived role as secondary breadwinners is ..."

5. Biodiversity and the Management of the Madrean Archipelago: The Sky Islands edited by Leonard F. DeBano (1999)
"... to the system due to detrimental land, water, construction or industrial practices. devaluate the possibility of on the ground management (renovations ..."

6. The New Sydenham Society's Lexicon of Medicine and the Allied Sciences ...by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society (1882)
"devaluate. (L. de, intens. ; valgas, bow-legged.) Having bowed legs; bandy-legged. The unfertilised egg is a cefi and consists of a mass of protoplasm, ..."

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