to revalue
- verb
- /ˌriːˈvæljuː/
- Specialized
- The government decided to revalue the national currency to boost the economy.
- revalue its currency
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In layman's terms, we took a charge of around $496 million because we had to revalue some of the companies we acquired last year.
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One after another, other currencies were revalued against the dollar.
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We'll have to revalue the assets that they hold on their balance sheets.
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Forms of work that women once specialized in, such as child care and teaching, would be revalued.
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I would revalue Google's business upwards if they were already in a defensible position.
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A few months later, governments agreed to revalue other currencies upward by an average of 7.9 percent against the dollar.
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Once the government got all the gold they could, Roosevelt revalued gold at $35 per ounce.
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But its goodwill gestures have not put everyone at ease, and the United States, Japan, and South Korea have asked it to revalue its currency.
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There's no reason for currencies to be revalued against one another every nanosecond, 24 hours a day, five days a week.
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But individuals—especially money traders—will soon find out about any changes and revalue the respective coins in international transactions.
Academic text (1990)
Synonyms
To decide how much money something should cost
To change the price of a product or service
Look at something again to decide how valuable or important it is
To increase or hold a product's price by government action
To make something worth more money
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Etymology
Revalue comes from the prefix re- meaning 'again' and value meaning 'worth'. So to revalue something is to 'value again' — to set a new price or official worth after a change.