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Definition: Devalued |
DevaluedAdjective1. Lowered in value; "the dollar is low"; "a debased currency". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: DevaluedSynonyms: debased (adj), degraded (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Devalued |
| Specialty definitions using "devalued": overvalued currency. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | British tourist arrivals to Greece in 1999 totaled 2.4 million, an increase of approximately 29% over 1998. Travel to Greece for U.K. residents remains an inexpensive option given the strength of the pound against the devalued drachma. (references) | |
On May 2, the GOU devalued the official exchange rate, the one used mostly for government transactions and debt servicing by 54%. At 321 to the dollar compared with about 900 on the curb market, the local currency still remains grossly overvalued. (references) | ||
Economic History | Oman | The Rial was devalued in 1986 due to the collapse in oil prices. (references) |
Finland | The same year, Finland devalued the markka to promote export competitiveness. (references) | |
Colombia | As of December 31, 2000, the peso had devalued at an annual rate of 19.3 percent. (references) | |
Political Economy | DOMINICAN REPUBLIC | The unofficial rate has also devalued and is currently in the range of 16.83 pesos to the dollar. (references) |
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC | On July 2, 1998, the peso was devalued nine percent from 14.02 pesos/dollar to 15.33 pesos/dollar. (references) | |
URUGUAY | In November 1982, the crawling-peg exchange rate system was abandoned, and the peso was devalued from 14 to 28 pesos per dollar. (references) | |
Trade | Honduras | In March 1990, with the passage of a sweeping economic reform package, the Central Bank of Honduras devalued the lempira vis-a-vis the dollar, and later permitted it to float freely. (references) |
Eritrea | The nominal exchange rate of the Nakfa against the U.S. Dollar remained relatively stable during 1998. It had depreciated by 23 percent to about 9.75 Nakfa per Dollar by end of 1999, and was again devalued to 10.2 Nakfa per Dollar in December 2000. Through early 1999, the Bank of Eritrea sold substantial foreign exchange to the government without purchasing any foreign currency from the market. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Devalued" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 67.68% of the time. "Devalued" is used about 198 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 67.68% | 134 | 27,488 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 19.7% | 39 | 55,036 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 12.63% | 25 | 69,787 |
| Total | 100.00% | 198 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "devalued": be devalued. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
devalued | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "devalued"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | zhvleftësuar. (various references) | |
Chinese | 贬值 (Depreciate, Depreciated, Depreciating, Depreciation, devaluate, devaluation, devalue). (various references) | |
German | wertete ab, abgewertet (devaluated). (various references) | |
Greek | υποτιμημένος. (various references) | |
Italian | svalutare (be devalued, depreciate, devaluate, devalue, undervalue). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | evaluedday.(various references) | |
Russian | девальвировать девальвированный (devaluated). (various references) | |
Thai | ซึ่งลดคุณค่าลง. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Devalued" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: devale, evalue, evalued. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "devalued" (pronounced diva"lyuw'd or dēva"lyuw'd) |
| 3 | -y uw' d | barbecued, barbequed, interviewed, previewed. |
| 3 | -y uw' d | barbecued, barbequed, interviewed, previewed. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-e-l-u-v" | |
-1 letter: devalue. | |
-2 letters: deaved, delead, delude, delved, dueled, eluded, evaded, lauded, leaded, leaved, valued, vealed. | |
-3 letters: addle, deave, dedal, deled, delve, devel, eaved, elude, evade, laded, laved, leave, uveal, value. | |
-4 letters: alee, auld, dale, dead, deal, deed, dele, deva, duad, dual, dude, duel, eave, lade, laud, lave, lead, leud, leva, lude, ulva, uvea, vale, veal. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-d-e-e-l-u-v" | |
+2 letters: devaluated. | |
+3 letters: undervalued. | |
+5 letters: overmodulated. | |
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