devaluation

Example Sentences

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Devaluation of points and rewards can sometimes be tricky to detect.

From Washington Post • Oct. 11, 2022

This is not to say UCB is responsible for issues across the industry but that it has a normalization effect: Devaluation at the ground floor, for instance, acclimates workers to devaluation elsewhere.

From Slate • Jun. 21, 2019

Devaluation of the yuan would thus harm America’s return to full employment but “usually a recession takes sharply higher interest rates or a financial crash.”

From US News • Jan. 7, 2016

Devaluation made exports cheaper and imports more expensive.

From New York Times • Jul. 3, 2015

Devaluation of its Francophone   currency by 50% on 12 January 1994 sparked a one-time inflationary   surge, to 35%; the rate dropped to 6% in 1996.

From The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency