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What does Depletion mean?

An accrual accounting technique used to allocate the cost of extracting natural resources from the earth.

Depletion in a sentence
The mining company recorded depletion expense for the coal extracted during the year.

Depletion in German, French, Spanish and Italian

German
Abschreibung auf Bodenschätze
also Substanzverringerung

Abschreibung auf den Substanzverzehr bei Naturressourcen.

French
Épuisement
also Amortissement des ressources naturelles

Constatation comptable de l'épuisement des ressources naturelles.

Spanish
Agotamiento

Reducción del valor de los recursos naturales a medida que se extraen.

Italian
Ammortamento minerario
also Deperimento

Ripartizione del costo dei beni naturali man mano che vengono consumati.

Synonyms and opposites for Depletion

  • Synonym Natural resource exhaustion

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