| 词汇 | depreciation |
| 释义 | depreciation noun[ U ] uk /dɪˌpriː.ʃiˈeɪ.ʃən/ us /dɪˌpriː.ʃiˈeɪ.ʃən/ the process of losing value贬值，跌价 Compare wear and tear Price decreases bargain bear market bearishly closeout concessional couponer couponing debase deflate depreciate devalue drop off freeze knock off (something) knock someone down mark something down nosedive overdiscount post-devaluation spiral But although the unwarranted depreciation was robbery it was not the worst feature of the methods of this greedy money-changer. During my first year in government employ the depreciation in legal-tender notes in which we were paid was very embarrassing. He had supposed that the letter in question contained a request for a remittance to cover depreciation in his account. The rapid depreciation of the continental currency, had long been viewed with apprehensive anxiety by the enlightened friends of the revolution, and various unsuccessful expedients had been essayed for the purpose of checking its progress. This general depreciation of investment securities will doubtless lead to many bankruptcies, if not to a genuine crisis. depreciation | Business Englishdepreciation noun[ U ] uk /dɪˌpriːʃiˈeɪʃən/us ACCOUNTING, TAX the amount by which something, such as a piece of equipment, is reduced in value in a company's financial accounts, over the period of time it has been in use. The loss in value reduces a company's profits, and the amount of tax it must pay: accelerated depreciation Expenses include depreciation of equipment as well as business insurance. a depreciation charge/deduction Compare amortization(amortize) ACCOUNTING the practice of spreading the cost of capital expenditure over several years, especially in order to improve cash flow MONEY, FINANCE the amount by which a currency loses value in comparison with other currencies: The depreciation of the dollar affected the British economy. the depreciation of sterling against the euro Depreciation in the peso since last December could dent sales and cut profit. Compare appreciation FINANCE, INSURANCE a loss of value, especially over time: After three years, this car is projected to be worth 57% of its price when new - one of the lowest rates of depreciation of any car in any class. The insurance guarantees that the goods will be replaced at their present market value, without any deduction for depreciation. Compare appreciation wear and tear See alsoaccelerated depreciation accumulated depreciation book depreciation tax depreciation Examples of depreciationdepreciation In order to analyze the relative importance of the depreciation values with respect to national account figures, we compared them to timber activity value added. The importance of incorporating environmental depreciation measures in national accounts is widely recognised. Consequently, there were increases in depreciation and discards not captured by our depreciation-rate measures, which are constant for all years. All growth and depreciation rates are in generational frequencies covering 35 years. The only parameter change that substantially reduces the role of persistence compared with the baseline case is the higher depreciation rate of human capital. We use the same source for the annual depreciation rate, which is set to = 0.064. This application overcomes a measurement problem, related to the economic depreciation of natural resources, that has plagued previous applied work. Crises occur when the government underestimates the contractionary effects of currency depreciation. The sharp depreciation impacted inflation at the same time as growth slowed down, thereby providing an offset. Alternatively, when circumstances are adverse, the case against allowing a large depreciation can become more compelling. Moreover, for 1988-1990, the current net price resource depreciation was almost the same as total public investment in education. Estimating knowledge depreciation at business-cycle frequencies is made more challenging by the annual nature of the industry data. The depreciation rate is set to = 0.09, which implies an initial steady-state investment-to-output ratio (21.5%), consistent with the average of the past decade. So in general, as you might expect, the effect of a surprise depreciation on output is ambiguous. This approach probably would have yielded less accurate estimates of economic depreciation, however. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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