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market value

market value

40 2.8
The price something sells for in a market with many buyers and sellers
  • noun
  • /ˈmɑrkɪt ˈvælju/
translation icon : valor de mercado
  • You can find the market value of this car by checking recent sales in your area.
  • fair market value
  • foreign market value
  • market value of assets

That's what I call buying a below market value wedge deal.

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Examples

  • The degree to which they hold steady depends on the future market value of crops.

    Academic text (1999)
  • She studied the bracelet as if trying to estimate its fair market value.

  • The largest insurance company in the world today by market value is China Life.

  • I think what you get paid somewhere is what the market value at the time of the job is.

  • To do that, he has to know what the market value would be, what the market is paying for houses of that sort.

  • You sell me three of your homes, at a fair market value to be agreed upon later.

  • The total market value lost so far is more than a trillion dollars.

  • His prices were much lower than market value, and this made it easy to find buyers.

  • Again, market value corresponds to what investors believe a company is worth rather than actual profits.

  • By 4:00 p.m., nearly $10 billion of market value was gone.

Synonyms

price
vsmarket value
1.0

The amount of money you must pay to buy something

is about the amount obtainable specifically through open competitive sales
valuation
vsmarket value
  • Specialized
62 5.1

An estimate of how much something is worth

gives the actual amount something can fetch in open competition rather than the estimate
market price
vsmarket value
21 2.5

The price people pay for something like shares or houses when it is bought and sold freely

is the same concept but expressed using a different common label
monetary value
vsmarket value
7 3.3

How much money something is worth

is specific to amounts achievable in open competitive trading environments
quotation
vsmarket value
  • Specialized
7 4.5

The current market price for something like a stock or oil that you can trade

is broader, referring to the amount something can fetch in open competition
selling price
vsmarket value
6 2.7

The price at which something is sold to buyers

focuses on the estimated sum something can obtain in open competition
economic value
vsmarket value
  • Specialized
5 3.3

The amount of money something is worth when it is bought or sold

focuses on money obtainable in open competitive selling rather than broad exchange equivalence

Antonyms

A feeling that you have no value or importance

How Valuable

exceptional
129 4.1
premium
74 4.3
valuable
158 2.3
market value
40 2.8

Surface Forms

market value singular
market values plural

Morphology

market + value

The meaning is directly compositional: 'market' (commerce/trade context) combined with 'value' (worth) yields the price or worth in a market context. This noun–noun compound follows a common, cross-linguistic pattern and a B1 learner who knows both constituents can readily infer the MWE meaning.

Etymology

The noun market value comes from the simple image of a busy market where many buyers and sellers set the value by how much they will pay. So, market value means 'the price' something can be 'sold' for.