0 to reduce the rate at which money can be exchanged for foreign money:
1 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.
2 to reduce the rate at which one currency can be exchanged for another:
4 to make someone or something seem to be of less value or importance:
Let us not devalue the work that he has done.
Foreclosures devalue nearby homes and entire neighborhoods.
Science is devalued as perspectival only if we accept the presumption that perspectival knowledge is inferior to nonperspectival knowledge.
Second, instead of devaluing the dinar in the 1980s, leaders arbitrarily pegged it to a basket of convertible currencies.
Examination of the language and symbolic practices of these groups reveals that they share a dominant cultural view that devalues old age and older people.
Nonetheless, the literate skills were consistently devalued in relation to oral communication and transmission of knowledge.
Gal 1993 suggests that in such resistance, devalued practices may be seen as embodying alternate social models of the world.
One teacher felt that you learnt your scales so that you could apply them to repertoire, and that learning them through repertoire devalued the music.
Conversely, those who remain settled may be disempowered, because traditional communities - social organizations gathered in space and developed over time - are devalued.
He had proposed devaluation, the guilder had been devalued, and contrary to popular predictions it had (at least) not been harmful to the economy.
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paranın değerini azaltmak/düşürmek, değerini azaltmak/düşürmek…
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