MEANING
1. Become less valuable, or reduce the recorded value of an asset over time.
2. Treat or describe someone or something as having little worth.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- currency depreciates
- depreciate equipment
On the page
The currency began to depreciate after the policy announcement.
Nearby words
Opposite meanings
Word forms
- Base
- depreciate
- Past tense
- depreciated
- Past participle
- depreciated
- Present participle
- depreciating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- depreciate
- Present continuous
- am/is/are depreciating
- Present perfect
- have/has depreciated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been depreciating
- Past
- depreciated
- Past continuous
- was/were depreciating
- Past perfect
- had depreciated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been depreciating
- Future
- will depreciate
- Future continuous
- will be depreciating
- Future perfect
- will have depreciated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been depreciating
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Usage notes
Primary category: economics / business / social science. Forms: depreciate; depreciates; depreciated; depreciated; depreciating Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: analysis, evaluation, business. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: depreciates.
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