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Currency Depreciation

A currency depreciation happens inside a floating exchange rate system and means that one currency (e.g. the £) buys less of another currency (e.g. the US dollar or the Euro). E.g. the pound falls from £1 buys Euro 1.30 to £1 buys Euro 1.10.