0 to (cause something to) lose value, especially over time:
2 when a company depreciates an asset, such as a piece of equipment, it reduces its value in its accounts over a certain length of time:
3 if a currency depreciates or is depreciated, it loses value in comparison with other currencies:
The value of a real antique increases over the years, but a reproduction immediately depreciates in value.
Why should this depreciate music's status, artistic quality or any other pedagogically important matter?
If intertemporal externalities strongly affect future production possibilities and the externalities depreciate quickly, short-term monetary shocks can have long-term real effects.
Such shocks create very little conflict, as both central banks want to depreciate the real exchange rate.
Capital is assumed to depreciate fully with use.
In the business-cycle literature, the intertemporal externality is a flow variable that depreciates every period.
Both young and middle-aged consumers may hold fiat money m, the value of which depreciates with a rate of inflation each period.
Capital is assumed to depreciate at rate d and depreciation is subtracted from the tax base.
Despite which appreciated or depreciated, silver could not substitute for copper coins.
