A decrease in the value of a country's currency relative to that of foreign countries

Usage examples of devaluation.

The invert glorifies his narcissist, places him on a pedestal, endures any and all narcissistic devaluation with calm equanimity, impervious to the overt slights of the narcissist.

When I dared be something other than who she wanted me to be, the sarcastic criticism and total devaluation was unbelievable.

To the narcissist, every day is a new beginning, a hunt, a new cycle of idealisation or devaluation, a newly invented self.

He quickly becomes disillusioned, in one of the spastic devaluation reactions typical of his appraisal of humans around him.

He recommended closer relations with the sterling bloc, for want of which he predicted an appreciable devaluation of the gulden.

Life began or was supposed to begin: After the devaluation of the gulden the economic situation improved slightly.

Hamilton was Acting Prime Minister on May 2, when the devaluation was announced, and personally telephoned most of the editors of Prairie newspapers, hinting that the main purpose of the move had been to raise the external price of Canadian wheat.

The Fiscal Sins of a Prairie Prime Minister 289 As to the effect of devaluation, Fleming gave an appraisal in the House of Commons on June 17, 1958, which pointed out that a reduced value of the dollar would help some Canadians, and harm others.

The surcharge program on imports that was imposed by Diefenbaker following the currency devaluation emergency of 1962 hit British exports the hardest, causing a 9.

Rotary Club about dollar devaluation, gave Diefenbaker a valid base from which to reawaken the resentment against Liberal arrogance that had been strongly felt by Canadian voters in 1957.

In nearly every other western country during the postwar period, such a devaluation was followed immediately by a heavy influx of investment funds, stabilizing the currency at its new level.

The Lady Doris Grownsnatch of Grownsnatch House once came home to find her four pet corgis walking on their hind legs, smoking gold leaf Coronas, drinking violet label Lumlian port and angrily debating the importance of a neoteric treaty with the barbarian tribes of the Barren Lands in relation, specifically, to trade variability code practices, at Guild and sub-Guild level, and, generally, to its potential affect on the Stock Exchange, vis-a-vis devaluation of red-rimmed stock ownership and level-playing-field industrial macro-reform in the northern Realms.

The shogun has actually made several devaluations, trying to draw more metal from the ground and increase the supply of money, which in his view will bring about a corresponding increase in the amount of goods produced.

Somehow, through mergers, takeovers, booms and busts, devaluations, failures and holidays, through the very Invasion of the earth itself, this little account was still tucked away in a bank on Mars that might have been the great-great-great-great-granddaughter of the little Poughkeepsie neighborhood bank where old W.

Numerous subsequent devaluations had readjusted the official exchange rate to 30:1.