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Meaning of "devalue" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DEVALUE

devalue  [diːˈvæljuː] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DEVALUE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Devalue is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb devalue in English.

WHAT DOES DEVALUE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Devaluation

Devaluation in modern monetary policy is a reduction in the value of a currency with respect to those goods, services or other monetary units with which that currency can be exchanged. ‘Devaluation’ means official lowering of the value of a country's currency within a fixed exchange rate system, by which the monetary authority formally sets a new fixed rate with respect to a foreign reference currency. In contrast, depreciation is used to describe a decrease in a currency's value due to market forces, not government or central bank policy actions. Under the second system central banks maintain the rates up or down by buying or selling foreign currency, usually but not always USD. The opposite of devaluation is called revaluation. Depreciation and devaluation are sometimes incorrectly used interchangeably, but they always refer to values in terms of other currencies. Inflation, on the other hand, refers to the value of the currency in goods and services. Altering the face value of a currency without reducing its exchange rate is a redenomination, not a devaluation or revaluation.

Definition of devalue in the English dictionary

The definition of devalue in the dictionary is to reduce or be reduced in exchange value. Other definition of devalue is to reduce the value or worth of.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO DEVALUE

PRESENT

Present
I devalue
you devalue
he/she/it devalues
we devalue
you devalue
they devalue
Present continuous
I am devaluing
you are devaluing
he/she/it is devaluing
we are devaluing
you are devaluing
they are devaluing
Present perfect
I have devalued
you have devalued
he/she/it has devalued
we have devalued
you have devalued
they have devalued
Present perfect continuous
I have been devaluing
you have been devaluing
he/she/it has been devaluing
we have been devaluing
you have been devaluing
they have been devaluing
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I devalued
you devalued
he/she/it devalued
we devalued
you devalued
they devalued
Past continuous
I was devaluing
you were devaluing
he/she/it was devaluing
we were devaluing
you were devaluing
they were devaluing
Past perfect
I had devalued
you had devalued
he/she/it had devalued
we had devalued
you had devalued
they had devalued
Past perfect continuous
I had been devaluing
you had been devaluing
he/she/it had been devaluing
we had been devaluing
you had been devaluing
they had been devaluing
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will devalue
you will devalue
he/she/it will devalue
we will devalue
you will devalue
they will devalue
Future continuous
I will be devaluing
you will be devaluing
he/she/it will be devaluing
we will be devaluing
you will be devaluing
they will be devaluing
Future perfect
I will have devalued
you will have devalued
he/she/it will have devalued
we will have devalued
you will have devalued
they will have devalued
Future perfect continuous
I will have been devaluing
you will have been devaluing
he/she/it will have been devaluing
we will have been devaluing
you will have been devaluing
they will have been devaluing
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would devalue
you would devalue
he/she/it would devalue
we would devalue
you would devalue
they would devalue
Conditional continuous
I would be devaluing
you would be devaluing
he/she/it would be devaluing
we would be devaluing
you would be devaluing
they would be devaluing
Conditional perfect
I would have devalue
you would have devalue
he/she/it would have devalue
we would have devalue
you would have devalue
they would have devalue
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been devaluing
you would have been devaluing
he/she/it would have been devaluing
we would have been devaluing
you would have been devaluing
they would have been devaluing
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you devalue
we let´s devalue
you devalue
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to devalue
Past participle
devalued
Present Participle
devaluing
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DEVALUE


CDW
ˌsiːdiːˈdʌb əljuː
curlew
ˈkɜːljuː
disvalue
dɪsˈvæljuː
eigenvalue
ˈaɪɡənˌvæljuː
lew
ljuː
lieu
ljuː
misvalue
ˌmɪsˈvæljuː
MSW
ˌɛmɛsˈdʌbljuː
outvalue
ˌaʊtˈvæljuː
overvalue
ˌəʊvəˈvæljuː
purlieu
ˈpɜːljuː
revalue
riːˈvæljuː
transvalue
trænzˈvæljuː
UAW
ˌjuːeɪˈdʌbəljuː
UCW
ˌjuːsiːˈdʌbljuː
UMW
ˌjuːemˈdʌbəljuː
undervalue
ˌʌndəˈvæljuː
upvalue
ʌpˈvæljuː
UPW
ˌjuːpiːˈdʌbljuː
value
ˈvæljuː

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DEVALUE

deva
devall
devalorisation
devalorise
devalorization
devalorize
devaluate
devaluating
devaluation
devalued
devaluing
Devanagari
devastate
devastated
devastating
devastatingly
devastation
devastative
devastator
devastavit

WORDS THAT END LIKE DEVALUE

absolute value
acid value
added value
asset value
book value
calorific value
expected value
face value
food value
market value
net asset value
nominal value
par value
present value
Q value
replacement value
resale value
salue
store of value
surrender value
time value

Synonyms and antonyms of devalue in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «DEVALUE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «devalue» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of devalue

Translation of «devalue» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DEVALUE

Find out the translation of devalue to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of devalue from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «devalue» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

贬低
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

devaluar
570 millions of speakers

English

devalue
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अवमूल्यन
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

خفض قيمة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

девальвировать
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

desvalorizar
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মূল্যহ্রাস করা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

déprécier
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Menurunkan nilai
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

abwerten
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

価値を減じる
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

깎아내리다
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Devalue
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

làm mất giá
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மதிப்பைக் குறைக்கும்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

चलनाचे अवमुल्यन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

değerini düşürmek
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

svalutare
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

dewaluacji
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

девальвувати
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

devaloriza
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

υποτιμήσουν
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

devalueer
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

devalvera
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

devaluere
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of devalue

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DEVALUE»

The term «devalue» is regularly used and occupies the 79.814 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DEVALUE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «devalue» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «devalue» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about devalue

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8 QUOTES WITH «DEVALUE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word devalue.
1
Joyce Banda
But the fact that we had to devalue by 40% at once means that Malawians are feeling the shock, the impact of that huge devaluation and particularly rural people, the poor are the ones that are going to be most affected. That is why there is the austerity plan.
2
Timothy Geithner
It is very important for people to understand that the United States of America and no country around the world can devalue its way to prosperity, to be competitive. It is not a viable, feasible strategy, and we will not engage in it.
3
Bryan Lee O'Malley
Tumblr culture and the whole reappropriation-without-context thing are a double-edged sword in that they both raise awareness of my work and also kind of devalue it at the same time.
4
Jean-Pierre Raffarin
We must stress that the euro has been beneficial to the European Union because, otherwise, in this context of international turmoil, every country would have to devalue their currencies.
5
Gina Rodriguez
I do not devalue the role of a maid or nanny, or the stereotypical roles that some members of our family have actually done to feed our families in real life.
6
Robert Coppola Schwartzman
You don't ever want to devalue music. Music is important; it's necessary product. I always try to make sure that there's a value - that people appreciate music and realize that there's a value to it.
7
Ben Stiller
I don't devalue comedy as compared to drama. Not one bit.
8
Roberto Unger
When we imagine our Universe to be just one out of a multitude of possible worlds we devalue this world, the one we see, the one we should be trying to explain.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DEVALUE»

Discover the use of devalue in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to devalue and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Money: In Equilibrium
Suppose the government only has { unit of reserves left and yet it decides not to devalue this period. An optimal response by the speculators would be to sell sterling, for if they do so the government will be forced to devalue next period.
Douglas Gale, 1982
2
Reform and Recovery in East Asia
competitive advantage should both countries devalue and GDP is assumed to be unchanged. The resulting matrix is the familiar Prisoners' Dilemma game. The case for setting constitutional rules to govern policy options is unambiguous.
Peter Drysdale, 2003
3
How Latvia Came Through the Financial Crisis
To. Devalue. or. Not. to. Devalue. The Latvian financial stabilization program ignited a fiery policy debate about exchange rate devaluation. This debate took place in many places: Latvia, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the European ...
Anders Åslund, Valdis Dombrovskis, 2011
4
Intro to Financial Markets and Institutions
Although a country that is running a balance of payments deficit and losing international reserves must at some point devalue, the situation is different for a balance of payments surplus. If a country is running chronic surpluses, it does not have ...
Maureen Burton, Burton, Reynold Nesiba, 2010
5
A Quarter-century of Normalization and Social Role ...
FIGURE 5.1 A SAMPLE OF THE INDIVIDUAL VARIATION IN PERSONAL DE VALUATIONS 'l'ypeA TypeB TypeC Typell S1 L H S2 L0 S3 H S4 L0 On the individual-to-individual level, one family member may devalue another family member, ...
Robert John Flynn, Raymond A. Lemay, 1999
6
Economics of Monetary Union
The authorities will immediately lose their stock of international reserves, forcing them to devalue. The really interesting case is the one when we have an intermediate shock, i.e. ε1 < ε' < ε2 We now obtain two possible equilibria, labelled N ...
Paul De Grauwe, 2014
7
The Making of Chinese Foreign and Security Policy in the Era ...
Whereas Hong Kong was vulnerable to speculative attack, China neither had to devalue (the renminbi is inconvertible on the capital account) nor needed to devalue (Beijing's foreign exchange reserves were three times larger than China's ...
David M. Lampton, 2001
8
Currency Boards, Credibility, and Macroeconomic Behavior
If the govemment has chosen a standard peg, the private sector knows that the government will devalue sometimes depending on the value of the shock hitting the economy in period one. The monetary authority?' has the power to act for two  ...
Amadou N. R. Sy, Luis Rivera-Batiz, 2000
9
International Monetary Cooperation Since Bretton Woods (EPub)
The figure provided by the technical economists suggested that France should devalue by 15 percent, though the Americans thought a lower figure would suffice. The French position became fiirther confused when de Gaulle phoned the  ...
Mr. Harold James, 1996
10
International finance and open-economy macroeconomics: with ...
These costs are not necessarily proportional to the devaluation or to macroeconomic variables, hence we shall take them as exogenously given at the amount c > 0. Hence a government pegging the exchange rate will find it optimal to devalue ...
Giancarlo Gandolfo, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DEVALUE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term devalue is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Why the Greece crisis could be the beginning of the end of Europe …
In other words, instead of being able to devalue your way out of trouble, you'd have to fight with your neighbors about how high interest rates ... «Washington Post, Jul 15»
2
Buncombe recycling transfer station proposal stymied
Bruce Crawford said having such a large facility would devalue surrounding property. The truck traffic, estimated at three an hour, would also ... «Asheville Citizen-Times, Jul 15»
3
Parallels between Greece and Argentina - Business Insider
... of spare capacity, tight credit conditions and a heavy public sector debt burden denominated in a currency against which it may not devalue. «Business Insider, Jul 15»
4
Nigeria's Emfiele Stands Firm on Foreign Exchange Trade Controls …
Nigeria needs to let the naira devalue as the restrictions are starting to harm growth in Africa's largest economy, Bisi Onasanya, the chief ... «Bloomberg, Jul 15»
5
Subtle playoff seeding change could make a huge difference …
While this would devalue winning a division, it could make a difference for teams in the Southwest Division. All five teams made the playoffs in ... «Dallas Morning News, Jul 15»
6
The euro has become the equivalent of a straitjacket for Greece
Traders would bet that a weak drachma would devalue further and further against the euro. As with Britain during its recurring efforts to defend ... «Business Insider, Jul 15»
7
Question & Answer: China's share trading suspensions - FT.com
Most notably, it did not devalue the renminbi when its neighbours' currencies plummeted during the Asian financial crisis of 1997-98, even ... «Financial Times, Jul 15»
8
What the Greek Tragedy Means for Canadians | Ivey Business School
Keep in mind that Greece does not have its own currency to devalue to gain economic relief. And so the nation's debt problem can't be fixed by ... «Huffington Post Canada, Jul 15»
9
Schubart: Monopolies | Vermont Public Radio
... junk food, and the legroom you once enjoyed and devalue your accrued airline miles. Choose the competition and discover they do the same ... «Vermont Public Radio, Jul 15»
10
Trade of the Day: CurrencyShares Euro Trust (FXE) | InvestorPlace
... 2) if the ECB decides to support Greece and the Eurozone through enhanced quantitative easing (QE), which would devalue the euro and ... «Investorplace.com, Jul 15»

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