0 present participle of devalue
1 to reduce the rate at which money can be exchanged for foreign money:
2 to cause someone or something to be considered less valuable or important:
I don't want to devalue his achievement, but he managed to get a promotion without working very hard.
This implied a continuation of the previous policy of marginally devaluing the currency in real terms.
Instead of secluding, domesticating, or devaluing, privacy guards women's place and participation in public.
Second, instead of devaluing the dinar in the 1980s, leaders arbitrarily pegged it to a basket of convertible currencies.
Another insight offered by a feminist approach to this topic is an understanding of the devaluing of social connection in favour of self-sufficiency.
A number of studies have evaluated response-reinforcer associations by devaluing the reinforcer, usually by pairing it with a drug that causes gastric upset.
This tends to codify the process, devaluing the intuitive or accidental.
These contradictory evaluations are typically accompanied by evidence of globally negative devaluing mental representations of self and 0or caregiver.
Making western nations the model ignored the possibility of different paths to development, thereby devaluing the history and tradition of those concerned.
