Devalue
verb
To reduce or underestimate the worth or importance of.
The critics devalue her work without really understanding it.
Often appears as...
- devalue someone's efforts
- devalue someone's work
verb
To reduce the official value of a currency.
The government was forced to devalue the national currency to boost exports.
Often appears as...
- devalue the currency
- devalue the dollar
Usage tips
Technical
verb
To lessen the value or quality of something.
Overproduction may devalue the product in the market.
Often appears as...
- devalue the product
- devalue the brand
verb
To reduce or underestimate the worth or importance of.
The critics devalue her work without really understanding it.
Often appears as...
- devalue someone's efforts
- devalue someone's work
verb
To reduce the official value of a currency.
The government was forced to devalue the national currency to boost exports.
Often appears as...
- devalue the currency
- devalue the dollar
Usage tips
Technical
verb
To lessen the value or quality of something.
Overproduction may devalue the product in the market.
Often appears as...
- devalue the product
- devalue the brand
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Subjective Value
Used when someone's opinion reduces something's value, not facts.
Don't let a few negative comments devalue your accomplishments.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional Impact
Can affect someone emotionally if their work or effort is devalued.
He felt disheartened after his boss devalued his proposal.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Negative
Sometimes used constructively in conversations to balance overestimations.
Let's not devalue the risks involved in this project.
Pro Tip 1/3Subjective Value
Used when someone's opinion reduces something's value, not facts.
Don't let a few negative comments devalue your accomplishments.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional Impact
Can affect someone emotionally if their work or effort is devalued.
He felt disheartened after his boss devalued his proposal.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Negative
Sometimes used constructively in conversations to balance overestimations.
Let's not devalue the risks involved in this project.
Pro Tip 1/3Subjective Value
Used when someone's opinion reduces something's value, not facts.
Don't let a few negative comments devalue your accomplishments.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional Impact
Can affect someone emotionally if their work or effort is devalued.
He felt disheartened after his boss devalued his proposal.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Negative
Sometimes used constructively in conversations to balance overestimations.
Let's not devalue the risks involved in this project.
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Everyday leadership -...
anybody can do that we've convinced ourselves that those are the only things we're celebrating and we start to devalue the things that we can do every day and we start to take moments where we truly are a leader and we don't let ourselves take credit for and we don't let ourselves feel good about it and I've been lucky enough over the last ten years to work with some amazing people who have helped me redefine leadership
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Drew Dudley: Everyday...
that we've convinced ourselves those are the only things worth celebrating. We start to devalue the things we can do every day, We take moments where we truly are a leader and we don't let ourselves take credit for it, or feel good about it. I've been lucky enough over the last 10 years to work with amazing people who've helped me redefine leadership
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David Puttnam: What...
that a filmmaker should set about putting their own work outside or above what he or she believed to be a decent set of values for their own life, their own family, and the future of the society in which we all live. I'd go further. A responsible filmmaker should never devalue their work to a point at which it becomes less than true
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Rob Hopkins: Transition...
usually at the expense of the local, more resilient food systems that would have supplied that in the past, which we've so effectively devalued and dismantled. We can be astonishingly inventive and creative. But we also live in a world with very real constraints and demands.
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Chimamanda Ngozi...
because our fire trucks did not have water. I grew up under repressive military governments that devalued education, so that sometimes, my parents were not paid their salaries. And so, as a child, I saw jam disappear from the breakfast table, then margarine disappeared,
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How economic inequality...
But I should say a few words about what's going on. I think I'm looking and talking about the psychosocial effects of inequality. More to do with feelings of superiority and inferiority, of being valued and devalued, respected and disrespected.
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How economic inequality...
a few words about what's going on I think I'm looking and talking about the psychosocial effects of inequality more to do with feelings of superiority and inferiority of being valued and devalued respected and disrespected and of course
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The global learning...
Because pouring more money into broken systems may only fund more inefficiencies. And what deeply worries me -- if children go to school and don't learn, it devalues education,
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Miracle Jones: The...
breath they didn't even know they were holding because they were internally waiting to be ignored and devalued once again the experience in finding support but most of all
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How Schools Can Nurture...
And in particular, students of color are constantly devalued and marginalized. Regardless of background, students need to envision themselves as successful in life.
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Everyday leadership -...
anybody can do that we've convinced ourselves that those are the only things we're celebrating and we start to devalue the things that we can do every day and we start to take moments where we truly are a leader and we don't let ourselves take credit for and we don't let ourselves feel good about it and I've been lucky enough over the last ten years to work with some amazing people who have helped me redefine leadership
Video examples
Drew Dudley: Everyday...
that we've convinced ourselves those are the only things worth celebrating. We start to devalue the things we can do every day, We take moments where we truly are a leader and we don't let ourselves take credit for it, or feel good about it. I've been lucky enough over the last 10 years to work with amazing people who've helped me redefine leadership
Video examples
David Puttnam: What...
that a filmmaker should set about putting their own work outside or above what he or she believed to be a decent set of values for their own life, their own family, and the future of the society in which we all live. I'd go further. A responsible filmmaker should never devalue their work to a point at which it becomes less than true
Video examples
Rob Hopkins: Transition...
usually at the expense of the local, more resilient food systems that would have supplied that in the past, which we've so effectively devalued and dismantled. We can be astonishingly inventive and creative. But we also live in a world with very real constraints and demands.
Video examples
Chimamanda Ngozi...
because our fire trucks did not have water. I grew up under repressive military governments that devalued education, so that sometimes, my parents were not paid their salaries. And so, as a child, I saw jam disappear from the breakfast table, then margarine disappeared,
Video examples
How economic inequality...
But I should say a few words about what's going on. I think I'm looking and talking about the psychosocial effects of inequality. More to do with feelings of superiority and inferiority, of being valued and devalued, respected and disrespected.
Video examples
How economic inequality...
a few words about what's going on I think I'm looking and talking about the psychosocial effects of inequality more to do with feelings of superiority and inferiority of being valued and devalued respected and disrespected and of course
Video examples
The global learning...
Because pouring more money into broken systems may only fund more inefficiencies. And what deeply worries me -- if children go to school and don't learn, it devalues education,
Video examples
Miracle Jones: The...
breath they didn't even know they were holding because they were internally waiting to be ignored and devalued once again the experience in finding support but most of all
Video examples
How Schools Can Nurture...
And in particular, students of color are constantly devalued and marginalized. Regardless of background, students need to envision themselves as successful in life.
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Lupe Fiasco
American Musician
We have to make the physical music a little more valuable instead of just having a download link and a bunch of songs you downloaded from some torrent site. People try to make the music value-less, and I don't think we're going to stop that train, but the one thing that they can't devalue are things that are in the outside world.
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Opal Tometi
American Activist
I think it's really important that we understand the ways in which blackness plays out, right, and discrimination against black people impacts different communities in different ways but ultimately leaves them undermined and really devalued in our society.
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Tom Anderson
American Businessman
MySpace gives our members the ability to reach such an incredible range of people and have direct contact with them. I'm not sure how that devalues friendship so much as it expands the range of potential friends you can have.
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Michael Pollan
American Educator
As a society, we devalued farming as an occupation and encouraged the best students to leave the farm for 'better' jobs in the city. We emptied America's rural counties in order to supply workers to urban factories.
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Hanya Yanagihara
American Novelist
I think for a lot of people, friendship is a relationship that gets devalued once they move on to what people consider to be more important relationships: once you find a partner or when you have kids.
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Robert Coppola Schwartzman
American Actor
You don't ever want to devalue music. Music is important; it's necessary product. I always try to make sure that there's a value - that people appreciate music and realize that there's a value to it.
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Janet Mock
American Writer
Our culture often demeans and devalues the work, the pleasures, and the contributions of women and feminine people. This is, in part, why beauty culture is dismissed as unimportant and frivolous.
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Gina Rodriguez
American Actress
I do not devalue the role of a maid or nanny, or the stereotypical roles that some members of our family have actually done to feed our families in real life.
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Tony Blair
English Statesman
Values unrelated to modern reality are not just electorally hopeless, the values themselves become devalued. They have no purchase on the real world.
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Lars von Trier
Danish Director
If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.
Quote examples
Lupe Fiasco
American Musician
We have to make the physical music a little more valuable instead of just having a download link and a bunch of songs you downloaded from some torrent site. People try to make the music value-less, and I don't think we're going to stop that train, but the one thing that they can't devalue are things that are in the outside world.
Quote examples
Opal Tometi
American Activist
I think it's really important that we understand the ways in which blackness plays out, right, and discrimination against black people impacts different communities in different ways but ultimately leaves them undermined and really devalued in our society.
Quote examples
Tom Anderson
American Businessman
MySpace gives our members the ability to reach such an incredible range of people and have direct contact with them. I'm not sure how that devalues friendship so much as it expands the range of potential friends you can have.
Quote examples
Michael Pollan
American Educator
As a society, we devalued farming as an occupation and encouraged the best students to leave the farm for 'better' jobs in the city. We emptied America's rural counties in order to supply workers to urban factories.
Quote examples
Hanya Yanagihara
American Novelist
I think for a lot of people, friendship is a relationship that gets devalued once they move on to what people consider to be more important relationships: once you find a partner or when you have kids.
Quote examples
Robert Coppola Schwartzman
American Actor
You don't ever want to devalue music. Music is important; it's necessary product. I always try to make sure that there's a value - that people appreciate music and realize that there's a value to it.
Quote examples
Janet Mock
American Writer
Our culture often demeans and devalues the work, the pleasures, and the contributions of women and feminine people. This is, in part, why beauty culture is dismissed as unimportant and frivolous.
Quote examples
Gina Rodriguez
American Actress
I do not devalue the role of a maid or nanny, or the stereotypical roles that some members of our family have actually done to feed our families in real life.
Quote examples
Tony Blair
English Statesman
Values unrelated to modern reality are not just electorally hopeless, the values themselves become devalued. They have no purchase on the real world.
Quote examples
Lars von Trier
Danish Director
If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.
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