Definitions
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- verb transitive To reduce in value.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb lose in value
- verb remove the value from; deprive of its value
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Examples
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Trying to sell your home in this economy is hard enough but when the village allows someone to cause your property to devaluate, that is unacceptable.
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Japan denies any wrongdoing, and says allegations of vote-buying are meant to "devaluate"
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Continually rising shipping fees and material costs while the products we sell devaluate.
Archive 2009-06-01 2009
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Continually rising shipping fees and material costs while the products we sell devaluate.
groggy and confused 2009
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Uninsured property would devaluate faster if the risk of war increases, so there is a direct incentive not to free-ride.
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For a country as powerful as America, probably there is even no need for negotiations, it can just silently devaluate its debt.
Whose Debt is it, Anyway?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Yes, it is a competitive advantage to be able to devaluate, but it also is a tremendous cut for the people, so that depends on from where you are looking at things.
Iris Erlingsdottir: Democracy Weakening Everywhere Iris Erlingsdottir 2010
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Yes, it is a competitive advantage to be able to devaluate, but it also is a tremendous cut for the people, so that depends on from where you are looking at things.
Iris Erlingsdottir: Democracy Weakening Everywhere Iris Erlingsdottir 2010
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Assuming the dollar devaluate across all currencies equally we would not loose any competitive edge against other currencies except the dollar.
The Mogambo Guru speaks Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigade 2006
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Assuming the dollar devaluate across all currencies equally we would not loose any competitive edge against other currencies except the dollar.
Archive 2006-09-24 Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigade 2006
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