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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of depreciate.; reduced in value over time.

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Examples

  • Alexander mentions only one: “Perhaps the most important conservative insight being depreciated is the durable warning from free-marketeers that government programs often fail to yield what their architects intend.”

    Matthew Yglesias » More Condescension Needed 2010

  • All of these have gone nearly to the vanishing point, and the middle class population of all that portion of Europe, whose currency has largely depreciated, is being slowly impoverished, weakened, demoralized, and is becoming a vanishing factor.

    The European Situation 1923

  • Does the expression "de minimis" or the word depreciated resonate?

    Latest News from .NET Developer's Journal 2009

  • (_Gentz_, Werke, V, 62.) _Huskisson_ rightly calls a depreciated paper currency a much worse thing than clipped coin: the clipping of the coin is, so to speak, one great blow after which people can again calculate with certainty; but bad paper money is one continual fluctuation.

    System der volkswirthschaft. English Wilhelm Roscher 1855

  • The New Zealand dollar has in other words depreciated in value because of Where will it go from here then?

    Stefan Karlsson's blog 2009

  • If you own several homes each year your business's balance sheet is going down because that property is being 'depreciated'.

    Social Security Privatization, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Say, if you're in a situation where your houses has depreciated, meaning, you owe more on the house than it's actually worth -- they will go in now and do a refinance for you so you can refinance that loan to make it still affordable, and so, you don't have to worry about being upside-down in your mortgage.

    CNN Transcript Feb 21, 2009 2009

  • So basically the True Cost to Own calculations count only the amount of value you lose by driving the car each year, which makes much more sense otherwise you'd be adding it up twice -- once when you spent the money to buy the car and again when you "depreciated" it.

    WhatsTheCost Shows You The True Expense Of Things | Lifehacker Australia 2009

  • The open position resulted in huge losses for the account of the government whenever the exchange rate depreciated, meaning taxpayers ultimately had to foot the bill.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2002

  • Cameron is welcome to think that when I said "depreciated" (to belittle) I meant "deprecate" (to express disapproval of) but he happens to be wrong.

    The Chestertons Dale, Alzina Stone 1983

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