revaluationn.
/ˌriːvaljʊˈeɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌriˌvæljəˈweɪʃ(ə)n/ 1. Economics. The action or practice of revaluing something in financial or monetary terms; a new valuation; spec. adjustment (typically upwards) of the official value of a currency in relation to gold or another currency; an instance of this. Cf. devaluation n., revalorization n. 1.
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society > trade and finance > monetary value > [noun] > increase in value
enhancing1490
enhancement1577
revaluation1611
advance1642
rise1645
raise1883
surpreciation1884
revalorization1908
write-up1915
the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > evaluation, estimation, appraisal > [noun] > new
revaluation1611
reappraisement1823
reappraisal1830
transvaluation1898
re-evaluation1905
revaluating1908
society > trade and finance > money > value of money > [noun] > revaluation of currency
revalorization1908
revaluation1933
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Raprecy, a reualuation, or new price made, of.
1714 tr. French Bk. of Rates 25 The Five Shillings per Ton,..with the Revaluation of those Duties.
1799 J. Wentworth Compl. Syst. Pleading IX. 456 Revaluation and appraisement so made by the said A.B. and C.D. was much less than the valuation in the schedule.
1833 R. H. Jago Gen. & Equitable Commutation of Tithes (ed. 2) 17 It may be said that local circumstances may render a revaluation necessary.
1879 J. Danvers Rep. Railways in India 1878–79 60 The value of the stores in hand as entered in the books of the Company shall be corrected in accordance with such revaluation.
1933 in B. Y. Landis Must Nation Plan? (1934) vii. 106 Revaluation of the dollar in terms of American commodities is an end from which the government..cannot be diverted.
1962 Ann. Reg. 1961 465 Sterling was under pressure as a result of general uncertainty following the revaluations of the Deutschemark and Dutch guilder.
2001 Financial Times 27 Jan. (Money section) 15/2 The prices shown..may not be the current dealing levels because of an intervening portfolio revaluation or a switch to a forward pricing basis.
2. Second or further valuation, esp. with a view to assigning new or renewed worth or importance to something; a re-evaluation, esp. in more positive terms. Cf. revalorization n. 2.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > literary criticism > [noun] > revised evaluation of a work
revaluation1848
1848 T. De Quincey Wks. A. Pope in N. Brit. Rev. Aug. 306 In making a revaluation of Pope as regards some of his principal works.
1883 N. Amer. Rev. Nov. 436 It is a time of revaluation of our war heroes, and some will gain in our estimation, and some, no doubt, will lose.
1923 B. Vanzetti Let. 14 Apr. in N. Sacco & B. Vanzetti Lett. (1997) ii. i. 92 The rescue..must be before all a moral rescue: the re-valuation of the human liberty and dignity.
1976 UCT Stud. in Eng. (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.
2000 C. Brunsdon Feminist, Housewife & Soap Opera 4 My study of the early feminist..revaluation of soap opera inexorably led me to an interest in the historical construction of the feminist critic.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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