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say it: di-va-lyoo-AY-shuhn
devaluation is a noun meaning "an official lowering of a nation's currency; a decrease in the value of a country's currency relative to that of foreign countries". It carries 2 recorded senses.
an official lowering of a nation's currency; a decrease in the value of a country's currency relative to that of foreign countries
the reduction of something's value or worth
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for devaluation come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.