devaluation

See also: dévaluation

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *de

Proto-Indo-European *-h₁

Proto-Indo-European *déh₁

Proto-Italic *dē

Latin dē

Latin dē-der.

English de-

English valuation

English devaluation

From de- + valuation.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

devaluation (countable and uncountable, plural devaluations)

1. The removal or lessening of something's value.
   • 2016, Lorraine Giordano, Beyond Taylorism, page 28:

     According to Braverman's thesis, Taylorism, or scientific management, has been the key feature in the devaluation and dequalification of work.

2. (economics) The intentional or deliberate lowering of a currency's value compared to another country's currency or a standard value (e.g. the price of gold).
3. Depreciation.

Derived terms

• postdevaluation
• predevaluation

Translations

depreciation

• Armenian: արժեզրկում (hy) (aržezrkum)
• Belarusian: дэвальва́цыя f (devalʹvácyja)
• Bulgarian: обезце́няване n (obezcénjavane), девалва́ция (bg) f (devalvácija)
• Catalan: devaluació
• French: dévaluation (fr) f
• German: Abwertung (de) f, Devaluation f, Devalvation f (obsolete)
• Italian: svalutazione (it)
• Macedonian: обезвреднување n (obezvrednuvanje)
• Polish: dewaluacja (pl) f
• Russian: обесце́нивание (ru) n (obescénivanije), обесце́нение (ru) n (obescénenije), девальва́ция (ru) f (devalʹvácija) (finance)
• Spanish: devaluación (es) f, depreciación (es) f
• Turkish: devalüasyon (tr)
• Ukrainian: знеці́нення n (znecínennja), девальва́ція f (devalʹvácija)