depreciate

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments (5)  · 
“
Long-term assets depreciate, meaning they lose some value over time.

View all »
Definitions (13)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (3)

  1. transitive verb To lessen the price or value of.
  2. transitive verb To think or speak of as being of little worth; belittle. See Synonyms at decry. See Usage Note at deprecate.
  3. intransitive verb To diminish in price or value.

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (5)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (2)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (3)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (36)

  • The loss of reserves would put pressure on the exchange rates to depreciate, a requirement to correct the persistent balance of payments deficits. —  LBO-Lanka Business Online
  • "Until a base in growth looks to have been found the euro should continue to depreciate, acting as an automatic stabilizer." —  MarketWatch.com - Top Stories
  • Because cars depreciate, the car in question will have lost at least one-third of its value by the time you become interested in it and have little to no issues. —  Automotive Headlines
  • As these buildings depreciate, the more affluent will relocate. —  Libertarian Blog Place
  • "Countries with floating exchange rates do not go insolvent: they usually adapt by allowing their currencies to depreciate, and at the same time allowing inflation to rise." —  Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
More examples »
 

Tags

depreciate hasn't been tagged yet.

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 102 times.

stop updating
On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Add a related word »
Related

Roget's II Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

Allen's Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

Suggestions Wordniks Suggest

Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

Used in the same contextWord Family

depreciate:   depreciated ·  depreciating
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Etymologies (2)

Toggle American Heritage etymologies American Heritage Dictionary (1)

  1. Medieval Latin dēpreciāre, dēpreciāt-, alteration of Latin dēpretiāre : dē-, de- + pretium, price; see per-5 in Indo-European roots.

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (1)

  1. from Late Latin depreciatus, past participle of depreciare, properly depretiare (later F. déprécier = Spanish despreciar = Portuguese depreciar; cf., with equivalent prefix dis-, Italian dispregiare = Old French despreiser, despriser, later English dispraise, disprize), lower the price of, undervalue, from Latin de, down, + pretium, price: see price, prize, precious, etc., and cf. disprize. Cf. also appreciate.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »
/dəˈpriʃɪeɪt/
by American Heritage

Charts
frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word about twice a year.

Recently looked up

sultan · Cinematography · rackett · discover · avarice

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

Der dicke Dachdecker deckte dir dein Dach, drum dank dem dicken Dachdecker, dass der dicke Dachdecker dir dein Dach deckte. · weitläufig · und wenn sie nicht gestorben sind, so leben sie noch heute · redescheu · selbstverständlich