depreciatedadj.
/dɪˈpriːʃɪeɪtɪd/ Lowered in value or estimation.
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society > trade and finance > money > value of money > [adjective] > lowered in value
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depreciated1790
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debaseda1859
devalued1925
1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 345 Receiving in money, and accounting in depreciated paper. View more context for this quotation
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 323 Old specie debts were often paid in a depreciated currency.
1833 H. Coleridge Biographia Borealis 26 The depreciated value of estates and personal effects.
1860 J. L. Motley Hist. Netherlands (1868) II. ix. 33 Growing rich..on his profits from paying the troops in depreciated coin.
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