Depreciation

Noun

 * 1) The state of being depreciated.
 * 2) The decline in value of assets.
 * 3)  The measurement of the decline in value of assets. Not to be confused with impairment, which is the measurement of the unplanned, extraordinary decline in value of assets.

Adjectives
marginal; disastrous; marked; ever-increasing; substantial; radical; elaborate.

Thesaurus
abatement, ablation, abridgment, agio, alleviation, allowance, attenuation, attrition, backbiting, backstabbing, bank discount, belittlement, belittling, break, breakage, calumny, cash discount, chain discount, charge-off, cheapening, comedown, concession, consumption, contempt, contraction, curtailment, cut, cutting, dampening, damping, debasement, decadence, decadency, declension, declination, decline, decrease, decrement, decrescence, decrial, deduction, defamation, deflation, deformation, degeneracy, degenerateness, degeneration, degradation, demotion, denigration, depletion, depravation, depravedness, deprecation, depression, derogation, descent, deterioration, detraction, devaluation, devolution, diminishment, diminution, dip, disapproval, discommendation, discount, discrediting, disgrace, disparagement, dispraise, dissipation, disvaluation, dive, downtrend, downturn, downward mobility, downward trend, drain, drawback, drop, dying, dying off, ebb, effeteness, erosion, evaporation, exhaustion, expenditure, extenuation, extraction, fade-out, fading, failing, failure, failure of nerve, faint praise, fall, falling-off, impairment, impoverishment, indignity, involution, kickback, knocking, languishment, lapse, leakage, lessening, letup, loss of tone, lowering, lukewarm support, markdown, miniaturization, minimization, minimizing, misestimation, misprision, misprizal, misprizing, mitigation, nose dive, penalty, penalty clause, percentage, plummet, plummeting, plunge, premium, price cut, price fall, price reduction, price-cut, putting down, rebate, rebatement, reduction, refund, regression, relaxation, remission, retraction, retrenchment, retrocession, retrogradation, retrogression, ridicule, rollback, sag, sagging, salvage, scaling down, scandal, setoff, shortening, shrinkage, simplicity, slander, slash, slighting, slippage, slump, sour grapes, subtraction, tale, tare, time discount, trade discount, tret, truncation, underestimate, underestimation, underrating, underreckoning, underselling, undervaluation, using, using up, wane, wastage, waste, weakening, wearing, wearing away, write-off

Translations

 * Macedonian: обезвреднетост


 * Finnish:, , , ,


 * Macedonian: обезвреднување
 * Russian: амортизация


 * Finnish:


 * : обезценяване, амортизация
 * : dépréciation
 * : הפחתת ערך, ירידת ערך


 * : הамортизација (econom.)
 * : తరుగుదల (tarugudala)