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appreciation definition - finance
The increase in value, over time, of an asset, stock or investment. The opposite is depreciation.

Webster's New World Finance and Investment Dictionary Copyright © 2003 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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