A depreciating currency.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Clement was getting toward an age when clever youngsters are not unapt to exercise their talents in depreciating home surroundings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Six to Sixteen: A Story for Girls] Reference

Pro-risk strategies were partially unwound this week but provide more attractive levels to gain exposure to a longer-term depreciating USD trend.    From Wordnik.com.  [FXstreet.com] Reference

Citigroup this month cut the maximum amount certain borrowers in "depreciating" markets can finance through a mortgage and home-equity loan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lenders Curb New Mortgages In Weaker Areas] Reference

Factor in the loss of wealth in housing, still depreciating.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Obama Market Is More Carter Than Reagan] Reference

I would not be understood as decrying or depreciating dress.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863] Reference

We have an American dollar that ` s, you know, depreciating.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 23, 2008] Reference

Do not think that I am, for one moment, depreciating sentiment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, May 21, 1892] Reference

It is a sort of self-depreciating, self-deprecating, self-condemning habit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventures in the Land of Canaan] Reference

Indeed, the Chinese renminbi has been depreciating against the euro since June.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rising Euro Leaves A Sinking Feeling] Reference

What then is the remedy for our depreciated and depreciating national currency?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

We do not wish to be understood as depreciating the usefulness of colleges; not at all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference

Moreover, the earnings and savings of our wage earners are no longer depreciating in value.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference

"But Marcia, as you call her, was depreciating my picture not a minute before you called me.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858] Reference

This being the case, what possible reason can we have for depreciating ourselves or for lacking poise?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poise: How to Attain It] Reference

But to proceed deliberately on a scheme of depreciating our legal tenders and then forcing the holders of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference

The consensus is missing the fact that industrial capacity is depreciating rapidly and needs to be updated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Be Careful Of The 'New Normal'] Reference

Self-depreciating humor (and backhanded egotism) aside, though, let's get to taking a look at the week that was.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points [137] -- Listen To Westen And Lakoff, Democrats!] Reference

He loved her, and that she knew; and she had no thought of depreciating his choice, its excellency or its wisdom.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860] Reference

It is not designed to nourish the frame, but is just sufficient to keep it going though with depreciating strength.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben] Reference

The former almost infinitely depreciating our back country and the latter totally destroying us as a maritime power.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bounty of the Chesapeake Fishing in Colonial Virginia] Reference

Danger of the French colonizing Senegal, and supplanting us, and thereby depreciating the Value of our West-India.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa] Reference

So the bulk of your investment in this depreciating asset is quietly melting away, while you focus on the fuel costs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Downsizing your car – when does it make cents?] Reference

But when they make Watts's ethical intention the reason for depreciating him as an artist they are on more uncertain ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference

Danger of the French colonizing Senegal, and supplanting us, and thereby depreciating the Value of our West-India Islands.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa] Reference

The day for depreciating Wordsworth has gone by; but calmer critics must still object to his poetical views in their entireness.    From Wordnik.com.  [English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction] Reference

It would allow firms to write off 50% of the cost of equipment in 2010, rather than depreciating it over a longer period of time.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Small-Business' Bill Holds Plenty For Big Firms] Reference

He will probably begin by depreciating the goods which he knows, or should know, that the seller has reason to hold in high esteem.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861] Reference

The philosophers, by incessantly depreciating the nation in their writings, had succeeded in rendering the nation ashamed of itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference

Do not, then, suffer yourself to be hampered by the dread of depreciating remarks being made upon your conversation or your conduct.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Lady's Mentor A Guide to the Formation of Character. In a Series of Letters to Her Unknown Friends] Reference

"I remain humble, but with dignity," she writes to a friend; "that is, in depreciating myself I do not suffer others to depreciate me.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Women of the French Salons] Reference

But over the - typically, you know, I guess most people should think of housing as utility, that is - it's typically a non-depreciating asset.    From Wordnik.com.  [Era Of Homes As Piggy Banks May Be Over] Reference

Wall Street muck-a-mucks are dreaming of a trillion-dollar gift from the Fed to somehow bolster home prices and set a floor under depreciating prices.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Obama Market Is More Carter Than Reagan] Reference

Otherwise, I'm fearful that you risk substantially depreciating major currencies causing bigger financial panics down the road and that's something we need to avoid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joe Battipaglia Goes For Gold, Bonds And Big Stocks] Reference

Also, viewed as a depreciating economic asset with a limited life span, many composting aids cost as much or more money as the value of all the material they can ever turn out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference