revalorizev.
/ˌriːˈvalərʌɪz/, U.S. /riˈvæləˌraɪz/ 1. transitive. Economics. To establish a new (esp. a higher) price or value for (a commodity, asset, etc.); spec. to revalue (a currency).
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society > trade and finance > monetary value > be valued at [verb (transitive)] > set value on > set new value on
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1926 Times 15 Jan. 11/2 A demand that the 10,000,000, apparently paid in paper marks and allowed to depreciate, should be revalorized.
1954 Mod. Law Rev. 17 481 There seems to us to be nothing unlawful in accepting foreign monetary legislation designed to revalorise currency.
1979 S. Rosenne Documents on Internat. Court of Justice xv. 495 The Board decided that it was unable to revalorize the pensions of judges.
2007 Sustainable Infrastructure in Asia iv. 56 Cooperating with other companies to revalorize their by-products.
2. transitive. To assign worth or importance to (something previously considered of little value); to re-evaluate in more positive terms; (also) to reaffirm the worth or importance of.
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1957 L. Izod et al. tr. M. Seuphor Dict. Abstr. Painting vi. 40 Bergson's attempts at revalorizing mind,..after a hundred years of positivism and historical materialism.
1962 Listener 12 Apr. 624/2 If we are to have ministerial meetings they need not always be at the level of Heads of Government. Foreign Ministers must be revalorized.
1986 H. J. Maroney in J. Mitchell & A. Oakley What is Feminism? 101 Women's efforts towards collective self-definition have revalorized attributes and activities culturally coded as feminine.
2000 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 24 June r5 The first artistic movement for many years to actually call itself a school.., it has revalorized manifesto writing in the arts.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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