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devalued

/dee-val-yoo/US // diˈvæl yu //UK // (diːˈvæljuː) //

贬值,贬值的,贬价,降价

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    de·val·ued, de·val·u·ing.

    • : to deprive of value; reduce the value of.
    • : to fix a lower value on.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    de·val·ued, de·val·u·ing.

    • : to undergo devaluation: The currency has devalued at a rapid rate.

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Examples

  • Instead of rebuilding a new economy after the Civil War, the South simply devalued the labor previously performed by enslaved people, whether in the fields or within the home.

  • The flip side is that our regular season would have been devalued if our teams didn’t have to compete.

  • They’re also the back-of-house positions most likely to be held by women, whose work is often devalued by male chefs.

  • Swift promised she would rerecord all of her older albums so she would fully own them, therefore devaluing Braun’s purchase.

  • To understand the way that we have devalued women’s work is really to understand that we’ve expected women to do so much for free over hundreds and hundreds of years.

  • Boys are taught early in life to devalue care, to be hyper-competitive, super-achieving men.

  • In its place came something which, striving to fuse Urdu and Telugu, seemed to devalue both.

  • Rosen undoubtedly did not intend to devalue women with her comments.

  • We devalue the significance of memory in order to cope with the fact that our gadgets are now better at it than we are.

  • They propose that we pressure China to improve its human-rights policy, or to get tougher on Iran, or to devalue its currency.

  • These people devalue the source of their frustration and envy.

  • If they really decide to devalue, then Whitely and me, we go ahead and put every cent we got into Swiss gold.