market value en · NOUN
Meanings
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The price which a seller or insurer might reasonably expect to fetch for goods, services or securities on the open market.
In the West the national machinery of commerce and politics turns out neatly compressed bales of humanity which have their use and high market value; but they are bound in iron hoops, labelled and separated off with scientific care and precision.
1918, Rabindranath Tagore, Nationalism, London: Macmillan:Yet when a commuter fare increase is made, the volume of protest from passengers is astonishing; some even accuse the railways of robbing suburbanites, for any increase in fares takes hundreds of dollars from the market value of suburban homes.
1959 November, J. N. Westwood, “The Railways of Canada”, in Trains Illustrated, page 555:Whether in cash or in the purchase of artifacts at prices far above their market value, the issue of giving (and taking back) money has become the fulcrum of both tragedy and politics.
2025 November 25, Marco Respinti, “Refunding Salvation: Inside the Unification Church’s Independent Compensation Committee”, in Bitter Winter:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| market values | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Coordinates
book price · TV · tax value · ACV · book value · actual cash value
Deriveds
fair market value · sexual market value
Hypernyms
Synonyms
Translations (23)
fr valeur de marché (the price at which something is or can be traded) · sv marknadsvärde (the price at which something is or can be traded) · ca valor de mercat (the price at which something is or can be traded) · fr valeur vénale (the price at which something is or can be traded) · ka საბაზრო საფასური (the price at which something is or can be traded) · fi markkina-arvo (the price at which something is or can be traded) · pt valor de mercado (the price at which something is or can be traded) · ga luach margaidh (the price at which something is or can be traded) · pl wartość rynkowa (the price at which something is or can be traded) · es valor de mercado (the price at which something is or can be traded) · gl valor de mercado (the price at which something is or can be traded) · it valore di mercato (the price at which something is or can be traded) · cmn 市值 (the price at which something is or can be traded) · nl marktwaarde (the price at which something is or can be traded) · ru ры́ночная сто́имость (the price at which something is or can be traded) · fr valeur marchande (the price at which something is or can be traded) · ko 시장 가치 (the price at which something is or can be traded) · cmn 市場價值 /市场价值 (the price at which something is or can be traded) · cy gwerth marchnadol (the price at which something is or can be traded) · ru курсова́я сто́имость (the price at which something is or can be traded) · ka საბაზრო ღირებულება (the price at which something is or can be traded) · ota قیمت (the price at which something is or can be traded) · de Marktwert (the price at which something is or can be traded)