devaluation

devalue | Business English

devalue
verb
uk /ˌdiːˈvæljuː/us
[ I or T ] FINANCE, ECONOMICS
to reduce the rate at which one currency can be exchanged for another:
It caused a major crisis when the pound was devalued.
The banking system was in trouble before the government was forced to devalue.
[ I ] FINANCE, ECONOMICS
to become less valuable:
There are several reasons why the pound has devalued against the euro.
[ T ]
to make someone or something seem to be of less value or importance:
Let us not devalue the work that he has done.
Foreclosures devalue nearby homes and entire neighborhoods.

Examples of devalue

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Science is devalued as perspectival only if we accept the presumption that perspectival knowledge is inferior to nonperspectival knowledge.
Second, instead of devaluing the dinar in the 1980s, leaders arbitrarily pegged it to a basket of convertible currencies.
Examination of the language and symbolic practices of these groups reveals that they share a dominant cultural view that devalues old age and older people.
Nonetheless, the literate skills were consistently devalued in relation to oral communication and transmission of knowledge.
Gal 1993 suggests that in such resistance, devalued practices may be seen as embodying alternate social models of the world.
One teacher felt that you learnt your scales so that you could apply them to repertoire, and that learning them through repertoire devalued the music.
Conversely, those who remain settled may be disempowered, because traditional communities - social organizations gathered in space and developed over time - are devalued.
He had proposed devaluation, the guilder had been devalued, and contrary to popular predictions it had (at least) not been harmful to the economy.
Sadly, this devalues the comparative strength of an otherwise detailed and engaging book.
Making western nations the model ignored the possibility of different paths to development, thereby devaluing the history and tradition of those concerned.
Our findings suggest that elements of retinal circuits do not disappear as their functions are devalued.
A few women argued that they had accepted their socially devalued status even as they lamented the equation of beauty with youthfulness.
448 responses or responses that devalued the children's emotions, tended to be related negatively to children's adaptive coping.
Dismissing adults attempt to limit or minimize the influence of attachment relationships by dismissing, devaluing, or conversely idealizing attachment relationships and experiences.
The result is a pattern of punitive responses to and low expectations of children who show competencies in skills generally unrecognized or devalued.
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