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revaluˈation
[re- 5 a: cf. next.]
A second or revised valuation. a. A second or further valuation of the financial or monetary worth of something; spec. a revision (usu. an increase) of the official value of a currency in relation to gold or another currency.
1611Cotgr., Raprecy, a reualuation, or new price made, of. 1714Fr. Bk. Rates 25 The Five Shillings per Ton,..with the Revaluation of those Duties. 1884Law Rep. 13 Q.B. Div. 376 An alteration in the name of the occupier might require a revaluation of the property. 1925Times 22 Sept. 22/6 The German Embassy has issued the following information regarding the German Law of Revaluation:—Mortgages, land and annuity debts..will on principle be revalued at 25 per cent. of their gold value. 1946Times 13 July 7/1 Revaluation will tend to neutralize the impact [of disparity with U.S. prices] on the Swedish economy. 1955Times 27 June 9/3 No ratepayer can properly gauge the effect of revaluation until he knows what rate his local authority intends to levy in the new dispensation. 1962Ann. Reg. 1961 465 Sterling was under pressure as a result of general uncertainty following the revaluations of the Deutschemark and Dutch guilder. 1968Guardian 20 Nov. 12/2 Revaluation means increasing the value of a currency in terms of other currencies. 1971Daily Tel. 10 May 1/1 Dr Schmidt, president of the National Bank [of Austria] said losses to the reserves caused by the revaluation amounted to 1,500 million schillings. 1978Financial Times 30 Jan. 2/6 The half per cent revaluation of the Dirham against the dollar..brought it into line with the currencies of Bahrain and Qatar.
b. In literary criticism.
1851De Quincey Pope Wks. 1858 IX. 11 In making a revaluation of Pope as regards some of his principal works. 1936F. R. Leavis (title) Revaluation. 1976UCT Stud. in English (Univ. Cape Town) Oct. 1 After the critical revaluations of the past twenty years, Wallace Stevens can no longer be thought of as an eccentric. 1978Times Lit. Suppl. 1 Dec. 1393/2 What he is doing is practising the classic American trick of hurling effete European vice out of the window and then lugging it back through the door, wearing a coonskin cap and called Revaluation. |