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devalue Verb

— To lower or remove the value of something. The bully tried to devalue his critics. — To lose value. The government wanted to devalue the Australian dollar in relation to the euro.

devalue

— verb lower the value or quality of The tear devalues the painting — verb remove the value from; deprive of its value — verb (= depreciate) lose in value The dollar depreciated again

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If we do that, we will devalue the death and suffering of all the soldiers who have fallen under his command.
I must say, you devalue your generous offer if you want to use it as a bargaining point.
Why would somebody want to devalue the property?
So he had his gang set up a crime wave to devalue the property so he could buy it up, cheap.
When children learn to devalue others, they can devalue anyone, including their parents.
If labor costs go down half a point. the Swiss franc will devalue the lire. Then we'll all be in trouble.
I don't want to devalue your victory, Juliet.
They used Ito and his gang to circulate counterfeit yen in order to devalue the currency.
We'll devalue society's currency.
Argentina must devalue her currency to pay her debts!
Doesn't that devalue it a bit?
Don't devalue yourself.
My moms think that makeup is an ageist,sexist ploy To devalue the feminine form in its natural state Perpetuating unrealistic myths and expectations.
We managed to devalue Roman currency again.
I must say, you devalue your generous offer. if you want to use it as a bargaining point. Very well, I withdraw the request.
I don't want to devalue your victory, Juliet. - I wasn't tryin' to win.
Nobody here, nobody, is suggesting we devalue friendship.
They don't say: devalue the currency.
Well, sure, you get a short-term spike, but wouldn't that rapid expansion devalue that stock completely in two years?
Look, I don't mean to devalue the two and a half weeks you've had as a father.
Don't you ever devalue what you do, Mary.
Doesn't make sense for them to foreclose and devalue all their other projects.
He wants to devalue the company.
We devalue? Yes.
I must say, you devalue your generous offer if you want to use it as a bargaining point. Very well, I withdraw the request.
We devalue you and your accomplishments due to your size.
I just. don't want you to devalue your work or besmirch officer Fellows.
But that doesn't devalue the existence of OUR tree, because our tree is unique.
CHURCH LEADERS BEGAN TO DEVALUE THE SEVENTH-DAY SABBATH OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS IN PREFERENCE FOR THE MORE POPULAR ROMAN SUNDAY.
I didn't mean to devalue you or the rules of the supermarket.

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Those crisis countries that do not want to take it upon themselves to lower their prices should be given the opportunity to leave the eurozone temporarily in order to devalue prices and debts.
The trouble began a dozen years ago, when Argentina had no choice but to devalue its currency and default on its debt.
In early 1999 Brazil decided to devalue its currency.
High interest rate compensate for the risk that Argentina might stop paying the debts or devalue the currency or both.
First, Argentina should end its currency board and devalue its currency.
In a bold stroke, it could devalue the currency and then join a monetary union with Brazil.
Moreover, the eurozone itself is a mini-gold standard, with heavily indebted members unable to devalue their currencies, because they have no currencies to devalue.
Like Greece, they can't devalue to encourage exports.
When capital markets smelled a problem among ERM members, they invariably shorted the most vulnerable currency and pushed that country's authorities to devalue.
Of course, they would devalue on their own had they not given up their currencies for the euro ten years before the crisis (and if it were not for their euro-denominated debt).
As Barry Eichengreen and Jeffrey Sachs demonstrated in 1984, while abandoning the gold standard had an immediate negative impact, it quickly spurred recovery, with the first countries to devalue their currencies escaping depression earlier than others.
A choir of prominent American economists, including Paul Krugman, Kenneth Rogoff, and Nouriel Roubini, claimed that Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania must also devalue.
The Baltic states had many reasons not to devalue.
Rather than trying to mount a last-ditch defense of the fixed exchange rate, the government, at the suggestion of the Bank of England, agreed to abandon the gold standard and devalue the pound.
If Greece leaves the euro after it defaults, it can devalue its new currency, thereby stimulating demand and shifting eventually to a trade surplus.
Like Greece, these countries now face sharp budget cuts. Like Greece, they can't devalue to encourage exports.
It is economically irrational for Greeks to prefer continued membership in the eurozone, when they could remain in the EU with a restored national currency that they could devalue.
If Italy, Spain, and France were not part of the eurozone, they could allow their currencies to devalue; weaker exchange rates would increase exports and reduce imports, eliminating their current-account deficits.
But, of course, Italy, Spain, and France are part of the eurozone and therefore cannot devalue.
Last but not the least as a reason not to devalue, China is struggling with deflation and a slowdown in the country's growth rate.
This distinction between foreign and domestic debt is particularly important in the context of the euro crisis, because eurozone countries cannot devalue to increase exports if this is required to service foreign debt.
The IMF did not want Russia to devalue, and it provided billions of dollars to prop up the exchange rate.
The silver lining here is that this failure may revive the realization that no country--not even mighty America--can devalue its way out of trouble.
And everyone knows that beneath the stability of the moment lurk explosive forces that can change the regime and devalue huge investments.
In contrast to Latvia, Iceland let its currency, the krona, devalue massively.
They subordinated domestic monetary and fiscal policies to maintaining the fixed exchange rate - even during the 1997-98 Asian crisis, despite great pressure to devalue.
Moreover, the 17 European countries that currently use the euro cannot devalue their currency unilaterally.
If Greece still had its own currency, the authorities could devalue it while tightening fiscal policy.

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