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depreciate

[dih-pree-shee-ayt] / dɪˈpri ʃiˌeɪt /




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It is accounting policy to depreciate infrastructure and recognize other operating costs related to scaling new clusters when it starts provisioning the equipment, incurring expenses before the assets are handed over to a customer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

The amount actually recovered in cases like this often falls well short of the amount embezzled - especially if the money has been spent on consumables, holidays, and luxury goods that depreciate.

From BBC ● May 26, 2026

Car companies will often offer incentives to help their trade-in customers offset negative equity, with some brands tending to offer more because their cars depreciate faster.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 28, 2026

The cost of maintaining military superiority is rising as technological innovation accelerates, even as traditional military capital like tanks, ships, and aircraft become more vulnerable and depreciate faster.

From Barron's ● Apr. 27, 2026

Let it not be supposed that we wish to depreciate manual labour.

From Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. by Charles Knight

Hardware depreciates and demand comes in bursts, so a bought machine sits idle between them, as the price of processing falls every year.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026

They note that if the won depreciates by 1%, Hyundai’s annual operating profit would increase by 2%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025

A replacement battery for a Tesla Model 3 can cost up to $20,000, for a vehicle that retails at around $43,000 but depreciates quickly over time.

From Reuters ● Mar. 20, 2023

If the rupee depreciates, fuel costs more, with knock-on effects for goods that are transported or manufactured.

From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2023

It is considered a serious defect, and greatly depreciates a horse's value, if he has the habit of flapping or lashing himself with his tail when spurred, or at any other time.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 by Various

According to his calculations, the Indian rupee has depreciated by between 35% and 47% against the currencies of major study destinations since 2019.

From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2026

The won has depreciated almost 6% against the dollar this year, despite similar yields BX:AMBMKKR-10Y, lower inflation, a huge current account surplus and record exports.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 9, 2026

Exporters got a boost from the yen, which depreciated 7.8% against the dollar in April, making Japanese goods cheaper and more competitive overseas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026

The yen depreciated about 17% against the dollar over the past four years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026

Unhappily he, in no small degree, depreciated this great gift, by clogging it with his own self-opinionated pronunciation of the language, instead of taking it as actually spoken.

From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Edward Conybeare

As interest rates rose, banks found themselves sitting on depreciating assets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

Hardware is not depreciating on schedule, and renting has stopped getting cheaper fast enough to matter.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026

Buying equity stakes rather than owning depreciating fleets softens that, but the line between “demand layer” and “co-investor in hardware” thins with each deal.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 24, 2026

Perhaps the disappearance of history’s icons from a depreciating currency isn’t a fatal blow to the canon of British culture.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 16, 2026

Here Dad would stop long enough to give his version of a depreciating moue, and hide his face coyly behind an upraised elbow.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey




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