单词 | revalue |
释义 | revaluev. 1. transitive. To reassess the value or worth of (a commodity, asset, etc.) in financial or monetary terms; to establish a new (esp. a higher) price or value for; spec. to adjust (typically upwards) the value of (a currency) in relation to gold or another currency. Cf. devalue v., revalorize v. 1. Also intransitive. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > evaluation, estimation, appraisal > appraise, estimate [verb (transitive)] > again repraisec1450 revaluec1500 reappraise1732 transvalue1899 re-evaluate1905 revaluate1917 society > trade and finance > management of money > management of national resources > [verb (intransitive)] > practise or advocate specific policies co-operate1830 tariff1909 deflate1919 revalue1925 inflate1940 jawbone1966 reflate1971 c1500 Melusine (1895) 64 He had therytage in hys handes, be by extimacion reualued in money. 1592 H. Wotton Let. 13 June in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1685) 668 The Sum should be revalued. 1682 J. Scarlett Stile of Exchanges 294 If in such a case the Drawer..hath ordered his Acceptant to revalue upon him. 1721 Particular & Inventory R. Houlditch 12 in Particulars Estates South-sea Company II Sir Harry Goring said it was much short of the Value, and that he would send down two other Persons to revalue the same, which he did accordingly. 1761 W. Beawes Lex Mercatoria Rediviva (ed. 2) 417 If a Merchant..orders him to revalue for its Amount..the Merchant shall be obliged to pay the Bill. 1830 Agreement to Let in J. Thirsk & J. Imray Suffolk Farming 19th Cent. (1958) 112 That they insure the premises for 500 l. against fire, and that every 12 years the farm be revalued. 1874 C. Walford Insurance Cycl. III. 526 The house property over which the ins[urance] extends is revalued every 7 years. 1925 Times 22 Sept. 22/6 Mortgages, land and annuity debts..will on principle be revalued at 25 per cent. of their gold value. 1962 Ann. Reg. 1961 245 On 5 March the Deutschemark was revalued upwards by 4·75 per cent. 1968 Guardian 16 Nov. 1/2 The French..have been putting strong pressure on the Germans..to revalue. This would..make German exports less competitive. 1997 J. Williams Money vii. 168 Older issues of 4 maravedis were revalued and countermarked to first 8, then 12 maravedis. 2. transitive. To reassess in terms of general value, importance, significance, etc.; to re-evaluate. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > evaluation, estimation, appraisal > appraise, estimate [verb (transitive)] talec897 ween971 takec1175 weigha1200 deem?c1225 judge?c1225 guessc1330 reta1382 accounta1387 aretc1386 assize1393 consider1398 ponder?a1400 adjudgec1440 reckonc1440 peisec1460 ponderate?a1475 poisea1483 trutinate1528 steem1535 rate?1555 sense1564 compute1604 censure1605 cast1606 cense1606 estimate1651 audit1655 state1671 balance1692 esteem1711 appraise1823 figure1854 tally1860 revalue1894 lowball1973 the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > evaluation, estimation, appraisal > appraise, estimate [verb (transitive)] > evaluate quality of revalue1894 appraise1913 assess1934 to scope out1977 1894 Geogr. Jrnl. 3 307 Dr. Krümmel has revalued the older data of the surface salinity of the North Atlantic. 1903 Era Feb. 188/1 All ideas were revised and revalued. 1954 Life 16 Dec. 16/2 In the light of such a person we are inspired to revalue, if only in a small way, our own small lives. 1990 Stud. Eng. Lit. 91 A group of revisionists of the ‘canon’ of American literature..have begun to revalue such nineteenth century female novelists as Harriet Beecher Stowe and Susan Warner. 2009 W. Sriwarakuel in G. Arivia & D. G. Adia Rel. between Relig. & Cultures Southeast Asia viii. 98 Instead of revaluing and changing the meanings of those beliefs and practices they preferred to prohibit those traditions. Derivatives reˈvalued adj. ΚΠ 1795 J. Campbell Addr. Freeholders Scotl. 2 Neither could I perceive any difference as to their effects, betwixt the sums of such revalued lands, and the sums now considered as the established valuations. 1878 Freeman's Jrnl. (Dublin) 20 Sept. 6/2 Each revalued rent would credit the tenant with the increased value. 1974 M. Currell Polit. Women vi. 118 Look to a socialist revolution as the necessary precursor of a revalued status for women. 1997 Condé Nast Traveler Mar. 92/3 15 years before,..rooms went for $10 a night. Now they were $150, given inflation and the newly revalued Argentine peso. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.c1500 |
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