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Meaning of net worth in English

(Definition of net worth from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
(Definition of net worth from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of net worth

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Education, income, net worth, and car ownership consistently related to quality of life, but the association of home ownership was less consistent.
Five indicators of socio-economic position were used : income, education, home ownership, net worth, and car ownership.
The federal debt increased 3 1 times or 4 from 7% of initial private net worth to about 30%.
Over time, as increasing numbers of producers gain access to external finance, borrowers' net worth rises relative to debt.
The firm accumulates net worth by means of profits.
With net foreign currency liabilities, devaluations erode net worth.
For entrepreneurial households, business wealth constitutes a relevant fraction of their total net worth.
Economic growth promotes financial development by increasing borrowers' collateralizable net worth.
Table 3 presents the associations of income and financial net worth with a high quality of life in the 10 countries.
Like income, total household net worth was divided into country-specific tertiles.
In equilibrium, producers invest their entire net worth; this determines the efficiency of financial intermediation, and thus the returns to both borrowers and lenders.
As the wealth of borrowers relative to lenders rises, collateralizable net worth, relative to debt, increases within the typical borrowing arrangement, and decreases.
In general, the risk premium will be a nonlinear function of the net worth/capital ratio.
The domestic net worth therefore reduces to the total amount of tangible assets held in the domestic economy.
Persons whose net worth exceeds 1,000 minimum wages will not qualify for these homesteads; nor will agrarian reform officials.
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Translations of net worth

in Chinese (Traditional)
(資產)淨值…
in Chinese (Simplified)
(资产)净值…
in Spanish
patrimonio neto…
in Portuguese
património líquido…
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