Depreciate
verb
To lessen in value over time.
The value of a new car will depreciate as soon as it's driven off the lot.
Often appears as...
- depreciate in value
- rapidly depreciate
verb
To lessen the worth or effectiveness of something.
His negative comments depreciated the team's morale.
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- depreciate worth
- depreciate effectiveness
verb
To represent as having little value.
Don't depreciate your own accomplishments; you worked hard for them.
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- depreciate accomplishments
- depreciate efforts
verb
To decrease the book value of (an asset) over time.
We depreciate fixed assets over their useful life.
Often appears as...
- depreciate assets
- depreciate over time
verb
To lessen in value over time.
The value of a new car will depreciate as soon as it's driven off the lot.
Often appears as...
- depreciate in value
- rapidly depreciate
verb
To lessen the worth or effectiveness of something.
His negative comments depreciated the team's morale.
Often appears as...
- depreciate worth
- depreciate effectiveness
verb
To represent as having little value.
Don't depreciate your own accomplishments; you worked hard for them.
Often appears as...
- depreciate accomplishments
- depreciate efforts
verb
To decrease the book value of (an asset) over time.
We depreciate fixed assets over their useful life.
Often appears as...
- depreciate assets
- depreciate over time
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/2Common Usage
Often used for physical goods that lose value, like cars and electronics.
My laptop has depreciated significantly over the last two years.
Pro Tip 2/2Market Influence
Market trends can accelerate depreciation; keep context in mind.
Smartphones depreciate faster due to frequent new models.
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Dan Phillips: Creative...
which is a mobile home. Now there's a blight on the planet. It's a chattel mortgage, just like furniture, just like a car. You write the check, and instantly, it depreciates 30 percent. After a year, you can't get insurance on everything you have in it, only on 70 percent. Wired with 14-Gauge wire, typically.
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Creative houses from...
mobile home now there's a blight on the planet it's a chattel mortgage just like furniture just like a car you write the check and instantly it depreciates 30% after a year you can't get insurance on everything you have in it only on 70% wired with 14 gauge wire typically
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How to support Africa’s...
then we need to give incentives for manufacturing these exist in quite a number of countries already in the form of accelerated depreciation export incentives tax holidays and such and then skills availability where are the
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Dan Phillips: Creative...
which is a mobile home. Now there's a blight on the planet. It's a chattel mortgage, just like furniture, just like a car. You write the check, and instantly, it depreciates 30 percent. After a year, you can't get insurance on everything you have in it, only on 70 percent. Wired with 14-Gauge wire, typically.
Video examples
Creative houses from...
mobile home now there's a blight on the planet it's a chattel mortgage just like furniture just like a car you write the check and instantly it depreciates 30% after a year you can't get insurance on everything you have in it only on 70% wired with 14 gauge wire typically
Video examples
How to support Africa’s...
then we need to give incentives for manufacturing these exist in quite a number of countries already in the form of accelerated depreciation export incentives tax holidays and such and then skills availability where are the
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Quote examples
Norbert Wiener
American Mathematician
The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation of its value is false. It is scarcely less false than the more plausible claim that after a war we may take our existing weapons, fill their barrels with information.
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James B. Stewart
American Journalist
A major way that losses are generated in real estate ventures is through depreciation, which is supposed to reflect the way that assets lose value over time. But a well-maintained building typically gains value.
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Anthony Pratt
Australian Businessman
Accelerated depreciation helps companies bring forward capital-intensive investments by reducing payback time. It's not a hand out. Companies still have to pay the tax, but they simply get to defer it.
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John Breaux
American Politician
But, at the same time, I think that there is room for economic stimulus in terms of accelerated depreciation to encourage businesses to invest and to grow and ultimately to hire more people again.
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Warren Buffett
American Businessman
Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.
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David Hume
Scottish Philosopher
Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.
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Frederick Douglass
American Author
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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Carl Jung
Swiss Psychologist
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
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Robert C. Solomon
American Educator
The prices of all imports would rise if the dollar depreciates.
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Carlo Goldoni
Italian Playwright
A wise traveler never depreciates their own country.
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Norbert Wiener
American Mathematician
The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation of its value is false. It is scarcely less false than the more plausible claim that after a war we may take our existing weapons, fill their barrels with information.
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James B. Stewart
American Journalist
A major way that losses are generated in real estate ventures is through depreciation, which is supposed to reflect the way that assets lose value over time. But a well-maintained building typically gains value.
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Anthony Pratt
Australian Businessman
Accelerated depreciation helps companies bring forward capital-intensive investments by reducing payback time. It's not a hand out. Companies still have to pay the tax, but they simply get to defer it.
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John Breaux
American Politician
But, at the same time, I think that there is room for economic stimulus in terms of accelerated depreciation to encourage businesses to invest and to grow and ultimately to hire more people again.
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Warren Buffett
American Businessman
Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.
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David Hume
Scottish Philosopher
Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.
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Frederick Douglass
American Author
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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Carl Jung
Swiss Psychologist
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
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Robert C. Solomon
American Educator
The prices of all imports would rise if the dollar depreciates.
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Carlo Goldoni
Italian Playwright
A wise traveler never depreciates their own country.
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