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Debasement meaning
The act of debasing or the state of being debased; a lowering or degradation, especially in character or quality. | The lowering of the value of a currency by reducing the amount of valuable metal in the coins.
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Example sentences (19)
Given the debasement of the Republican Party, Carlson’s job as its top purveyor of propaganda is secure.
The long-term demand picture for silver is strongly bullish because of two distinct drivers: monetary debasement and increased industrial use for the green energy transition.
The presence of long-term inflationary pressures bolsters the bullish outlook for the silver market, as silver is widely regarded as a hedge against economic uncertainty, currency debasement, and inflation.
And interest rates are starting to head up, since people have exhausted their savings and will not save more unless they get an “inflation premium” – higher interest rates to compensate for the debasement of the currency – on their capital.
Gold has risen about 28% so far this year as unprecedented global stimulus to ease the economic blow from the COVID-19 pandemic pushed investors to bullion as a hedge against possible inflation and currency debasement.
I think where there is debasement, is the manner of dissent.
The debasement goes beyond passive indulgence.
The jump took gains for the year to nearly 30 per cent, driven by a worsening pandemic and low interest rates globally amid widespread stimulus from central banks since the metal is considered a refuge against inflation and currency debasement.
But I was horrified, not fully knowing what to make of people who view themselves as fair-minded, wishing to create safe space for a “community learning experience,” but who cheer on the defamation and debasement of a certain segment of a community.
Campbell remains disgusted by the debasement of law enforcement institutions by the president and his allies.
It would seem clear that the major single cause of the inflation was the drastic increase in the money supply owing to the devaluation or debasement of the coinage.
The global debt figures serve once again as a reminder that individuals and businesses must take responsibility for their own wealth and protect it from the ongoing currency debasement and gigantic monetary experiment of central banks.
Equal representation for equal numbers of people is a principle designed to prevent debasement of voting power and diminution of access to elected representatives.
Fétis would later contribute to the debasement of the reputation of the Gazette when his journal failed and was absorbed by the Gazette, he found himself on the editorial board.
Since auguria publica and inaugurations of magistrates are strictly connected to political life this brought about the deterioration and abuses that condemned augury to progressive and inarrestable debasement, stripping it of all religious value.
The New Deal in Old Rome, HJ Haskell, Alfred K Knoff New York 1939 The denarius began to undergo slow debasement toward the end of the republican period.
This continual debasement had reached a point that silver content in Groschen -type coins had dropped, in some cases, to less than five percent, making the coins of much less individual value than they had in the beginning.
This tendency toward fiat money led eventually to the debasement of Roman coinage, with consequences in the later Empire.
Traditional jazz enthusiasts have dismissed bebop, free jazz, the 1970s jazz fusion era and much else as periods of debasement of the music and betrayals of the tradition.