Meaning of value in English

The pearl, valued at £75 000, is so big that it has been described as a freak of nature.
Before probate can be granted, all business assets have to be identified and valued.
We're getting an estate agent to value our house.
Experts have valued the pottery at over £5,000.
Have you had the furniture valued?

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value verb [T] (IMPORTANCE)

to consider something important:

I've always valued her advice.

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Stop belittling yourself - your work is highly valued.
The bank manager waived the charge , as we were old and valued customers.
I wouldn't cross him if I were you, not if you value your life.
The general drift of the article was that society doesn't value older people.
They value their freedom above and beyond all else.

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value | American Dictionary

value

noun

/ˈvæl·ju/

value noun (IMPORTANCE)

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[ U ]

importance, worth, or benefit:

They discussed the value of having cameras in the courtroom.

The value of the thing (= its worth in money) was probably only a few dollars but it had great sentimental value.

value noun (MONEY)

[ C/U ]

the amount of money that can be received for something; the worth of something in money:

[ C ] a decline in property values

[ U ] The value of the dollar fell against the mark and the yen yesterday.

value noun (NUMBER)

[ C ] mathematics us/ˈvæl·ju/

the number or amount that a letter or symbol represents

value noun (ART)

[ C ] art us/ˈvæl·ju/

the degree of light or darkness in a color, or the relation between light and shade in a work of art

value

verb [ T ]

/ˈvæl·ju/

value verb [T] (MONEY)

to state the worth of something:

The painting was valued at $450,000.

value verb [T] (IMPORTANCE)

to consider something as important and worth having:

I value his friendship more than I can ever say.

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value | Business English

value

noun [ C or U ]

/ˈvæljuː/ us

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the amount of money that something is worth:

This mortgage is available for up to 95% of the property's value.

go up/shoot up/increase in value One-bedroom flats have shot up in value by 71%.

go down/drop/fall in value My investment has gone down in value.

a high/low value The rupiah has climbed to its highest value against the dollar since early May.

how good or useful something is in relation to its price:

excellent/good/poor value Property will always remain good value.

give/offer/provide value If you're taking more than one trip a year, annual travel insurance policies offer excellent value.

These jogsuits are outstanding value for money at a greatly reduced price.

values [ plural ]

the beliefs that people have about what is right, wrong, and most important in life, business, etc. which control their behaviour:

He believed that culture and values helped hold the company together.

core/shared values Companies that last are built on a central set of core values.

cultural/social/traditional values The changes indicated a return to the traditional values of local management.

Examples of value

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The value of this volume at present is clear in that it permits geoscientists to view the potential of three-dimensional seismic data.

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Although it is rarely clearly stated, we implicitly have a predicate whose result tells us when an abstract value permits strictness optimisations.

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Have consumers pay the difference for costlier plans, if they think they provide better value.

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Initially, as the plasma plume is formed, the particle pressure is very high due to high value of pressure and density.

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Because there are fewer constraints to the parameter values in qualitative modeling, there inevitably exists ambiguity.

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Working within the principles of organic agriculture and thus acknowledging the values of the system is also an important context for research.

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The symbolic evaluator implements a purely functional language which supports symbolic values.

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First, the language includes arrays of purely functional values.

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Let us, purely for convenience, indiscriminately lump together all such values within the category of 'anthropocentric values'.

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If we say that these values correspond to certain concepts, it must be understood that the concepts in question are purely differential.

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Calling a controversy "pure" imports a value judgment into a task that should be - if you will pardon the expression - purely descriptive.

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Yet the attempt to account for the value of happiness in purely hedonic terms seems to miss something.

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The concept of value orientations has received much attention in sociological and psychological literature over the past forty years.

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Such a nuanced distinction requires a continuous measure that returns very finely graded values.

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Twenty-four hours later, all hemodynamic parameters had returned to the initial values.

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