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Devaluation vs Devaluate - What's the difference?

devaluation | devaluate |

As a noun devaluation

is devaluation.

As a verb devaluate is

to reduce in value.

devaluation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The removal or lessening of something's value.
  • The intentional or deliberate lowering of a currency's value compared to another country's currency or a standard value -- the price of gold for example.
  • Depreciation.

    • devaluate

    English

    Verb

    (devaluat)
  • To reduce in value.
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    • , passage=Discomfort was built into the evening, as central to it as the Pirandello script, written in 1917, and which, as one critic noted, toys with how the social role built up by one character for himself is continually destroyed by another, devaluated into a sick sham existence that outsiders accept as real only out of pity. }}