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US
/dɪˈpɹiʃiˌeɪtɪŋ/
]
[ UK /dɪpɹˈiːʃɪˌeɪtɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /dɪpɹˈiːʃɪˌeɪtɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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tending to decrease or cause a decrease in value
depreciatory effects on prices
a depreciating currency
How To Use depreciating In A Sentence
- Far from depreciating talent and performance, we prize the exceptional and award prestige, money, and status to those we most want to emulate.
- There are different ways to account for depreciating assets.
- I had no intention of depreciating your contribution.
- Written in diary form it is a humorous, self depreciating honest account of a woman faced with the realities of a breast cancer diagnosis.
- But it's Broom, with her self-depreciating good humour and withering disdain for modern materialism, that makes the book so compelling.
- Most people neglect or underestimate the values of smiling, and some people view smiling as a sign of weakness or self-depreciating - to their own disadvantage. Dr T.P.Chia
- I had no intention of depreciating your contribution.
- Do you suppose Kleinzahler actually wrote "The humor is deadpan, ironical, playfully depreciating" or is that last word a mistranscription of "deprecating"? Languagehat.com: NO USE WHATEVER.
- No one knows how long savers will continue to accept a depreciating monetary unit as numeraire for their savings.
- Inflation is rising rapidly; the yuan is depreciating.