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depreciate

verb
🔊/dɪˈpriːʃieɪt/
🔊/dɪˈpriːʃieɪt/
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they depreciate
🔊/dɪˈpriːʃieɪt/
🔊/dɪˈpriːʃieɪt/
he / she / it depreciates
🔊/dɪˈpriːʃieɪts/
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past simple depreciated
🔊/dɪˈpriːʃieɪtɪd/
🔊/dɪˈpriːʃieɪtɪd/
past participle depreciated
🔊/dɪˈpriːʃieɪtɪd/
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-ing form depreciating
🔊/dɪˈpriːʃieɪtɪŋ/
🔊/dɪˈpriːʃieɪtɪŋ/
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  1. [intransitive] to become less valuable over a period of time贬值；跌价
    • New cars start to depreciate as soon as they are on the road.新车一上路就开始贬值。🔊🔊
    • Shares continued to depreciate on the stock markets today.今日股市股价继续下跌。🔊🔊
    opposite appreciate
    Extra Examples
    • Cars depreciate in value rapidly.汽车贬值很快。
    • Sterling is expected to depreciate against the dollar.预计英镑对美元的汇率会下跌。
    • The peso depreciated by 9%.比索贬值了 9%。
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb
    • quickly
    • rapidly
    • fully
    • …
    verb + depreciate
    • be likely to
    preposition
    • against
    • by
    phrases
    • depreciate in value
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  2. [transitive] depreciate something (business商业) to reduce the value, as stated in the company’s accounts, of a particular asset over a particular period of time折旧
    • The bank depreciates laptops over a period of five years.该银行在五年内对笔记本电脑进行折旧。
    Topics Moneyc2
  3. [transitive] depreciate something (formal) to make something seem unimportant or of no value贬低；轻视
    • I had no intention of depreciating your contribution.我并不想贬低你的贡献。🔊🔊
    4. Word Originlate Middle English (in sense (2)): from late Latin depreciat- ‘lowered in price, undervalued’, from the verb depreciare, from Latin de- ‘down’ + pretium ‘price’.