historic

historic
/hɪ'stɒrɪk/, historical /hɪ'stɒrɪk(ə)l/ adjective
which goes back over a period of time
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‘…the Federal Reserve Board has eased interest rates in the past year, but they are still at historically high levels’ [Sunday Times]
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‘…the historic p/e for the FTSE all-share index is 28.3 and the dividend yield is barely 2 per cent. Both indicators suggest that the stock markets are very highly priced’ [Times]
COMMENT: By tradition, a company’s accounts are usually prepared on the his toric(al) cost principle, i.e. that assets are costed at their purchase price. With inflation, such assets are undervalued, and current-cost accounting or replacement-cost accounting may be preferred.

Dictionary of banking and finance. 2015.

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