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Definition: Devalue |
DevalueVerb1. Remove the value from; deprive of its value. 2. Lower the value or quality of; "The tear devalues the painting". 3. Lose in value; "The dollar depreciated again". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: DevalueSynonyms: depreciate (v), devaluate (v), undervalue (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: appreciate (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Money | Inflate, deflate; debase; devalue, revalue. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Brazil | In spite a $42 billion assistance package negotiated with the IMF and other lenders, the government was forced to float and devalue the real in January 1999. (references) |
Dominican Rep | The official exchange rate for the Dominican peso was devalued nine percent from 14.02 to 15.33 pesos to the dollar in July 1998. The rate continued to devalue slowly through 1998 but stabilized in mid-1999 and is now around 16.7 pesos to the dollar. (references) | |
Political Economy | DOMINICAN REPUBLIC | Since then, it has continued to devalue slowly with the most recent official rate (October 2001) set at 16.66 pesos/dollar. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Devalue" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 84.62% of the time. "Devalue" is used about 104 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 (infinitive) | 84.62% | 88 | 35,154 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 14.42% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.96% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 104 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
devalue | 8 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "devalue"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | zhvlerësoj (avoid, depreciate, devaluate, discredit, invalidate), zhvleftësoj (vitiate). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | обезценявам (depreciate, devaluate, discount). (various references) | |
Chinese | 贬值 (Depreciate, Depreciated, Depreciating, Depreciation, devaluate, devaluation, devalued). (various references) | |
Czech | devalvovat, znehodnotit (debase, devaluate). (various references) | |
Finnish | devalvoida, alentaa arvoa (belittle, depreciate, disparage). (various references) | |
French | dévaluer (devaluate). (various references) | |
German | abwerten (devaluate). (various references) | |
Greek | υποτιμώ (belittle, underestimate, undervalue). (various references) | |
Hungarian | leértékel (to debase, to decry, to depreciate, to devalue). (various references) | |
Italian | svalutare (be devalued, depreciate, devaluate, undervalue). (various references) | |
Manx | jee-leaghey (devaluation). (various references) | |
Norwegian | devaluere. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | evalueday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | desvalorizar (depreciate, depress, devaluate). (various references) | |
Russian | обесценивать (depreciate), девальвировать (devaluate). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | devalvirati (devaluate). (various references) | |
Spanish | devaluar (devaluate). (various references) | |
Swedish | devalvera (devaluate), skriva ner (devaluate, write down). (various references) | |
Thai | ลดค่าเงิน, ลดคุณค่า. (various references) | |
Turkish | devalüasyon yapmak (devaluate), değerini düşürmek (alloy, attenuate, bemean, cheap, cheapen, damage, debase, depreciate, detract, devaluate). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | проводити девальвацію. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "devalue": devalued, devalues. (additional references) | |
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"Devalue" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: adevarul, Dedalus, Deeralok, Dekalia, Delacluse, Delarue, Delvaux, Desvaux, Deval, devale, Devenue, Divadlo, Divali, Evalie, evalu, evalue. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "devalue" (pronounced diva"lyuw') |
| 5 | -v a" l y uw' | revalue. |
| 3 | -l y uw' | Tew. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-l-u-v" | |
-1 letter: leaved, valued, vealed. | |
-2 letters: deave, delve, devel, eaved, elude, evade, laved, leave, uveal, value. | |
-3 letters: alee, auld, dale, deal, dele, deva, dual, duel, eave, lade, laud, lave, lead, leud, leva, lude, ulva, uvea, vale, veal, vela, veld. | |
-4 letters: ale, ave, dal, dee, del, dev, due, eau, eel, eld, eve, lad, lav, lea, led, lee. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-l-u-v" | |
+1 letter: devalued, devalues, revalued. | |
+2 letters: devaluate, eluviated, evaluated, unraveled. | |
+3 letters: devaluated, devaluates, overhauled, overvalued, revaluated, undervalue, unleavened, unravelled, unrevealed, untraveled, vaudeville. | |
+4 letters: curveballed, elucidative, reevaluated, revictualed, undervalued, undervalues, unevaluated, vaudevilles, vesiculated. | |
+5 letters: boulevardier, inequivalved, misevaluated, overslaughed, recultivated, revictualled, unalleviated, unventilated, unverbalized, vermiculated. | |
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