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Definition of Devaluate
1. Verb. Remove the value from; deprive of its value.
Generic synonyms: Cheapen, Degrade
Specialized synonyms: Demonetise, Demonetize
Derivative terms: Devaluation, Devaluation
2. Verb. Lose in value. "The dollar depreciated again"
Generic synonyms: Decrease, Diminish, Fall, Lessen
Related verbs: Depreciate
Antonyms: Appreciate
Derivative terms: Depreciation, Depreciation, Depreciative, Depreciatory, Devaluation, Devaluation, Devaluation
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
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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