DEVALUATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does devaluation mean? 

• DEVALUATION (noun)
  The noun DEVALUATION has 2 senses:

1. an official lowering of a nation's currency; a decrease in the value of a country's currency relative to that of foreign countries

2. the reduction of something's value or worth

  Familiarity information: DEVALUATION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEVALUATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An official lowering of a nation's currency; a decrease in the value of a country's currency relative to that of foreign countries

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("devaluation" is a kind of...):

regulating; regulation (the act of controlling or directing according to rule)

Derivation:

devaluate; devalue (lose in value)

devalue (lower the value or quality of)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The reduction of something's value or worth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("devaluation" is a kind of...):

decrease; diminution; reduction; step-down (the act of decreasing or reducing something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "devaluation"):

evisceration (altering something (as a legislative act or a statement) in such a manner as to reduce its value)

Derivation:

devaluate (lose in value)

devaluate (remove the value from; deprive of its value)

devalue (lower the value or quality of)

devalue (remove the value from; deprive of its value)