depreciate
verb /dɪˈpriːʃieɪt/
/dɪˈpriːʃieɪt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they depreciate | /dɪˈpriːʃieɪt/ /dɪˈpriːʃieɪt/ |
| he / she / it depreciates | /dɪˈpriːʃieɪts/ /dɪˈpriːʃieɪts/ |
| past simple depreciated | /dɪˈpriːʃieɪtɪd/ /dɪˈpriːʃieɪtɪd/ |
| past participle depreciated | /dɪˈpriːʃieɪtɪd/ /dɪˈpriːʃieɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form depreciating | /dɪˈpriːʃieɪtɪŋ/ /dɪˈpriːʃieɪtɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive] to become less valuable over a period of time
- New cars start to depreciate as soon as they are on the road.
- Shares continued to depreciate on the stock markets today.
Extra Examples- Cars depreciate in value rapidly.
- Sterling is expected to depreciate against the dollar.
- The peso depreciated by 9%.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- quickly
- rapidly
- fully
- …
- be likely to
- against
- by
- depreciate in value
- [transitive] depreciate something (business) to reduce the value, as stated in the company’s accounts, of a particular asset over a particular period of time
- The bank depreciates laptops over a period of five years.
- [transitive] depreciate something (formal) to make something seem unimportant or of no value
- I had no intention of depreciating your contribution.
Word Originlate Middle English (in sense (2)): from late Latin depreciat- ‘lowered in price, undervalued’, from the verb depreciare, from Latin de- ‘down’ + pretium ‘price’.