depreciate
Example Sentences
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The yen depreciated about 27% against the dollar over the past four years.
As a result, higher inflation now provides greater scope for the peso to depreciate, potentially pushing prices even higher.
Accounting guidelines say Targa has to depreciate investments in pipelines over two decades, even though the infrastructure lasts for four or five decades.
From MarketWatch
As prices have soared and the Iranian currency has depreciated to record lows against the dollar, he sold his car in an effort to keep his company afloat.
The DXY dollar index was lower, and BofA said the currency looked set to depreciate against this year as lower U.S. rates make it cheaper to take protection against the risk of the currency weakening.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.