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depreciable

depreciable adjective: able to be depreciated.

Adjective

depreciable (not comparable)

  1. Able to be depreciated.
    • When my turn came, I said, “Mr. President, I know you’re interested in tax reform because when you were an actor, the marginal tax rate was 90 percent — and Mr. President, I’m interested in tax reform because when I was a basketball player, I was a depreciable asset.”2009 August 30, Bill Bradley, “Tax Reform’s Lesson for Health Care Reform”, in New York Times

Origin of depreciable

From French dépréciable.

Questions about depreciable

What does depreciable mean?
Depreciable means able to be depreciated.
What part of speech is depreciable?
Depreciable is an adjective.

Words near depreciable in the dictionary

  1. deprecator
  2. deprecatorily
  3. deprecatoriness
  4. deprecators
  5. deprecatory
  6. depreciable
  7. depreciatable
  8. depreciate
  9. depreciated
  10. depreciates
  11. depreciating

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