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US
/dəˈbeɪsmənt/
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[ UK /dɪbˈeɪsmənt/ ]
[ UK /dɪbˈeɪsmənt/ ]
NOUN
- changing to a lower state (a less respected state)
- being mixed with extraneous material; the product of adulterating
How To Use debasement In A Sentence
- Jean Valjean, the reformed criminal, discovers her, is made aware that her debasement is the result of the act of his foreman, and takes her, half dead with misery and sickness, to his own house. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862
- Against currency debasement, which is the practice of lowering the value of the currency at the expense of citizens, the best protection remains the precious metals. SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
- People didn't even want to have their films previewed on film because video was such a ‘debasement’ of their art.
- When the name of Gail Wynand became a threat in the publishing world, a group of newspaper owners took him aside -- at a city charity affair which all had to attend -- and reproached him for what they called his debasement of the public taste. The Fountainhead
- Or consider, Frum says, the debasement of universities, where gay studies, courses on the novels of Louis L'Amour and the frivolities of decon-struction proliferate. Up From Geniality
- And with the creep of monetary inflation comes the specter of myriad inflationary effects, currency debasement, and progressive monetary disorder.
- Funny money is a funny thing, the more you expand the supply of it - the more its purchasing power lessens: it is known as the debasement of the currency - it loses value. WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
- Brazil's sharp-tongued Finance Minister Guido Mantega quickly became an international sensation when he coined the phrase "currency wars" to refer to excessive currency manipulation in these times of high volatility and dollar debasement. Forbes.com: News
- The debasement of the media can be traced in relation to the great political convulsions of the past 30 years.
- Other means of paying the debt are either inflation (debasement of the value of money), or economic growth - which is falsely measured because it is based on undervalued exhaustible resources and unvalued pollution. Herman Daly Festschrift~ Socially Sustainable Economic Degrowth
