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How to pronounce devaluation in English?

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Type Words
Type of regulation, regulating
Derivation devaluate, devalue
Type Words
Type of decrease, reduction, diminution, step-down
Has types evisceration
Derivation devaluate, devalue

Examples of devaluation

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Without the devaluation, you create the same effect through a decrease in wages.
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Well, the only problem with a devaluation of this kind is that it takes forever.
From the economist.com
Maybe devaluation will help these wonderful Tory blessed-stewards of prosperity.
From the economist.com
The following ten days saw four more presidents, a debt default and devaluation.
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Retiring that delusion will be hard, which is why devaluation will be unpopular.
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Presumably because there was a significant perceived probability of devaluation.
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The main effect of devaluation is to rip off voters in the place being devalued.
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A devaluation in the early 1990s helped Britain export its way out of recession.
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Your discussion of inflation, devaluation and negative interest are interesting.
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More examples
  • An official lowering of a nation's currency; a decrease in the value of a country's currency relative to that of foreign countries
  • The reduction of something's value or worth
  • (devaluate) depreciate: lose in value; "The dollar depreciated again"
  • (devalue) remove the value from; deprive of its value
  • (devalued) debased: lowered in value; "the dollar is low"; "a debased currency"
  • Devaluation is a reduction in the value of a currency with respect to those goods, services or other monetary units with which that currency can be exchanged.
  • When an individual is unable to integrate difficult feelings, specific defenses are mobilized to overcome what the individual perceives as an unbearable situation. The defense that helps in this process is called splitting. ...
  • The removal or lessening of something's value; The intentional or deliberate lowering of a currency's value compared to another country's currency or a standard value -- the price of gold for example; depreciation
  • (Devalue) is to lower the exchange value of a currency.