Depreciation
[dɪ,priːʃɪ'eɪʃ(ə)n;-sɪ'eɪ-] or [dɪ,priʃɪ'eʃən]
Definition
(noun.) a decrease in price or value; 'depreciation of the dollar against the yen'.
(noun.) decrease in value of an asset due to obsolescence or use.
Typed by Gwendolyn--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of lessening, or seeking to lessen, price, value, or reputation.
(n.) The falling of value; reduction of worth.
(n.) the state of being depreciated.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Fall in price, diminution of value.[2]. Detraction, disparagement, derogation, censure.
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Examples
- He expected a start, a look of depreciation. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Thus they not only had a greater investment than necessary in the truck itself, but were paying an exclusive charge in the way of operating costs and depreciation. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It denotes an enlarged, an intensified prizing, not merely a prizing, much less--like depreciation--a lowered and degraded prizing. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Mother, please say that I am to go, urged Letty, whose life was much checkered by resistance to her depreciation as a girl. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Mr. Tulkinghorn, profoundly attentive, throws this off with a shrug of self-depreciation and contracts his eyebrows a little more. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- In one of its meanings, appreciation is opposed to depreciation. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- An abstract and indefinite future is in control with all which that connotes in depreciation of present power and opportunity. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- He carried his head on one side, partly in modest depreciation of himself, partly in modest propitiation of everybody else. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The writers of comedy satisfied that almost universal craving for the depreciation of those whose apparent excellence offends our self-love. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Formal instruction, on the contrary, easily becomes remote and dead--abstract and bookish, to use the ordinary words of depreciation. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Then the reaction from this view as a cynical depreciation of human nature leads to the view that men who act nobly act with no interest at all. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The men crowded about Tarzan with many questions, but his only answer was a laughing depreciation of his feat. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Fair words and fair pretences; but I penetrated below those assertions of themselves and depreciations of me, and they were no better. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
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