overvalued currency
collocation in Englishmeaningsofovervalueandcurrency
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overvalue
verb[T]
uk/ˌəʊ.vəˈvæl.juː/us/ˌoʊ.vɚˈvæl.juː/
to put too high a value ...
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currency
noun
uk/ˈkʌr.ən.si/us/ˈkɝː.ən.si/
the money that is used in a particular country at a ...
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(Definition ofovervalueandcurrencyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Over the next few years, anovervaluedcurrencyand growing foreign debt further aggravated that crisis.
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The state marketing board overtaxed cocoa production over several decades to the point of ruin (or smuggling to neighbouring countries), reinforced by anovervaluedcurrency.
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That is the seed of future disaster, particularly when we are shackled withovervaluedcurrency.
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It is not the maintaining of anovervaluedcurrencyand still less the supporting of military postures with money which we do not have.
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There are good grounds for believing that we have a marginallyovervaluedcurrency.
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While those were being built up, they did not have to cope with the problems of anovervaluedcurrency.
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We are limping behind because we are penalising ourselves with high interest rates and anovervaluedcurrency.
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Theovervaluedcurrencyundermined the footwear industry's exports and its attempts to modernise and to improve designs.
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In both cases we had anovervaluedcurrency.
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Given that we have a cripplinglyovervaluedcurrency, boosted by the highest interest rates in our history, it is remarkable that they have held up at all.
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The £ is not anovervaluedcurrency.
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Tories prefer anovervaluedcurrency, because they represent finance— money, and those who have it.
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Having weakened the economy through excessively high interest rates and anovervaluedcurrency, he then unleashed a level of demand that it could not conceivably meet.
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Much of the capital borrowed in the 1980s went towards propping up thisovervaluedcurrency.
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In later years, he wrote extensively about the damage caused to a developing economy by inflation and anovervaluedcurrency.
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In the early 1970s, the performance of the export sector was undermined by anovervaluedcurrency.
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This new policy boosted some exports, but anovervaluedcurrencymeant certain imports were so cheap that local industry declined, and many exports were priced out of the market.
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