In a sentence
Six example sentences with depreciation, each labelled with its topic.
Accountants spread the depreciation of the delivery vans across eight years rather than writing them off at once.
Finance
The bakery's ovens lose about a tenth of their worth annually, and that depreciation shows on every balance sheet.
Business
He sold the camper after nine seasons, resigned to the depreciation that mileage and salted roads had quietly caused.
Travel
A new phone suffers most of its depreciation in the first year, losing nearly half its price before the next model arrives.
Technology
Lenses hold their value far better than camera bodies, whose depreciation tracks every sensor upgrade.
Photography
The tax code sets a depreciation schedule for each class of equipment, from five years for computers to thirty-nine for buildings.
Law
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