What's the difference between depreciation and devaluation?

Depreciation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of lessening, or seeking to lessen, price, value, or reputation.
  • (n.) The falling of value; reduction of worth.
  • (n.) the state of being depreciated.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The researcher is completing a PhD on the superyacht scene and says the vessels are unique among prestige assets: unlike private jets they are not a useful mode of transport; unlike art and property, they always depreciate in value.
  • (2) If the notes aren't spent, they can be renewed by buying a stamp that costs 2% of the note's face value – so over a year, the currency depreciates 8%.
  • (3) Olivier Blanchard, IMF director of research, said: “New factors supporting growth – lower oil prices, but also depreciation of euro and yen – are more than offset by persistent negative forces, including the lingering legacies of the crisis and lower potential growth in many countries”.
  • (4) Depreciation and salaries represented the major components of cost.
  • (5) "The ISM noted that some of the recent strength is due to the effects of the accelerated investment depreciation tax allowance, which expired at the end of last year.
  • (6) However, much of the gains followed a depreciation of the currency, which is not something Cyprus can follow while it remains inside the euro.
  • (7) The depreciation in the Australian dollar is also helping.
  • (8) The credit rating agency said that according to its estimate of ITV's adjusted debt to Ebitda – earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation – it believes the ratio will "exceed" four times for 2008 "with a possible increase to about five times in 2009".
  • (9) No one buys homes there, because your money will probably depreciate.
  • (10) Weaker growth in China weighs on demand, while the depreciation of the yen is making supply more competitive."
  • (11) The Black Lives Matter movement is about more than just justice for our deaths – it’s about a depreciation of black life The War Machine has always had an insatiable need for bodies of color from before the birth of this nation.
  • (12) Britain and the United States have at least been able to relieve some of the pressure on their economies through a depreciating currency.
  • (13) We expect the composition of growth to rebalance towards net trade, as the headwinds facing households from the erosion of their real incomes weigh on consumer spending while the depreciation of sterling supports net trade,” said Simon Kirby, NIESR’s head of macroeconomic forecasting.
  • (14) It is now profitable before interest, tax and depreciation charges, and looking to expand again.
  • (15) "If it persisted, the recent further depreciation of sterling was likely to put additional upwards pressure on inflation over the next few quarters," the minutes said.
  • (16) Currently there is no basis for the renminbi exchange rate to continue to depreciate,” PBoC assistant governor Zhang Xiaohui said on Thursday .
  • (17) For example, Kate and Matt Maloney , a young couple from Moranbah in Queensland who were honoured as investors of the year in 2012 by Your Investment Property Magazine, owe lenders $5.8m in mortgage debt on a depreciated property portfolio currently worth $2.3m.
  • (18) Across the world, protectionist trade measures have been on the rise.” Apart from the sharp depreciation of the pound, the IMF said financial markets’ reaction to Brexit vote had “generally been contained”, with shares up and the appetite for taking risk recovering after an initial plunge.
  • (19) But even though its share price has fallen since the depreciation of the Chinese currency began on Tuesday, the Swiss company said the move will prove positive in the end.
  • (20) The slim document predicts that underlying earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation will leap by more than 80% from £31.7m in 2010 to almost £60m in 2012.

Devaluation


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Evidence of the industrial panic surfaced at Digital Britain when Sly Bailey, the chief executive of Trinity Mirror, suggested that national newspaper websites that chased big online audiences have "devalued news" , whatever that might mean.
  • (2) It also devalues the courage of real whistleblowers who have used proper channels to hold our government accountable.” McCain added: “It is a sad, yet perhaps fitting commentary on President Obama’s failed national security policies that he would commute the sentence of an individual that endangered the lives of American troops, diplomats, and intelligence sources by leaking hundreds of thousands of sensitive government documents to WikiLeaks, a virulently anti-American organisation that was a tool of Russia’s recent interference in our elections.” WikiLeaks last year published emails hacked from the accounts of the Democratic National Committee and John Podesta, chairman of Hillary Clinton’s election campaign.
  • (3) The observed increase in self-derogation over a 1-year period in persons with initially positive self-attitudes is discussed with regard to the literature on developmental disturbances in self-image; differential volunerability to self-devaluing experiences; and the relationship between change in, and level of, self-acceptance.
  • (4) Once I’d checked she was OK I said, ‘Stop crying now.’ ” So it’s about managing emotions: ‘I’m going to need you to get a grip.’” “If you’ve got interesting points to make about the devaluing of serious words like bullying and depression, why make them in a way that sounds like you’re ridiculing people who are suffering?” I ask.
  • (5) In the postwar decades, the solution would have been to devalue the franc so as to make French exports cheaper.
  • (6) Earlier this month China devalued its currency in a move aimed at reviving its slowing economy.
  • (7) Re-exposure to the devalued outcome was not necessary for an impact on instrumental performance.
  • (8) And nobody ever talks about the fact that it was in quotes, but that’s a very important thing.” But if the president says something that cannot be proved or is demonstrably untrue, doesn’t that devalue his own currency, Carlson asked a second time.
  • (9) Many pro-independence columnists already write for rival titles – so an over-use of them will swiftly devalue the National’s new currency.
  • (10) In Study 2, sex-typed individuals were particularly likely to pay attention spontaneously to the sex of job applicants and then to devalue the interview performances of women.
  • (11) Other patients can be narcissitically wounded, with a negative devaluing response toward either therapist.
  • (12) Dombrovskis stubbornly refused, instead pursuing "internal devaluation", depressing wages and conducting what he says was a 17% fiscal adjustment programme (the IMF says 15%).
  • (13) The scandal, coupled with an increase in prices in Malaysia due to a devalued currency and an implementation of a goods sales tax, has presented Najib with the most dangerous threat yet to his time in office.
  • (14) The government is defying calls by the IMF to devalue the national currency , the kwacha.
  • (15) Gove was right to argue that they were no longer working; he was wholly wrong to think the answer was to make them more traditional and more academically rigorous by cutting classwork assessment and devaluing or banning vocational subjects as “soft options”.
  • (16) In a classic example of reflexivity, when China’s stock market boom turned into July’s bust, the government responded with a $200bn attempt to support prices , closely followed by a small devaluation of the previously stable yuan.
  • (17) The stereotype, while enduring, may have been more prevalent during certain periods, such as those periods when older people were devalued.
  • (18) The parents' effort devalues the child's own abilities and exaggerates the parents' self-perceived magical powers.
  • (19) Even economists weren’t dozy enough to miss that the fact that the same pound paid for Britain’s imports, meaning that after devaluation it bought fewer goods, and therefore domestic prices would go up.
  • (20) For the unconscious of the patient such an object represents in large measure the repressed aspects of his devalued self-representation.

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