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monetary value

monetary value

7 3.3
How much money something is worth
  • noun
  • /ˈmʌnɪˌtɛri ˈvælju/
translation icon : valor monetario
  • After the auction, the painting's monetary value was estimated to be over a million dollars.
  • assign a monetary value
  • place a monetary value
  • low monetary value

and there's no monetary value that you can assign to that. Yes,

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Examples

  • Trying to place a monetary value on everything is a foolish activity.

    Academic text (2011)
  • As something gets easier and cheaper to reproduce, its monetary value will go down.

    Blog text (1)
  • Knowledge itself has monetary value and benefit society because people want it.

  • Some of that stuff can have monetary value.

  • I doubt it has any monetary value.

  • The economic benefit of an environmental improvement is the monetary value that people are willing to pay for that improvement.

    Academic text (2000)
  • Aside from the unequal distribution of funds, there are also questions about the monetary value of the land itself.

    Academic text (2011)
  • The Angelus also changed hands again in 1881, and its monetary value appears to reflect its new cultural worth.

    Academic text (2003)
  • The fluctuations in the monetary value of an artist's work can be traced through spreadsheets.

    Academic text (1992)
  • Perhaps most importantly, neither set of calculations tried to attribute any monetary value to human discomfort and suffering.

    Academic text (1997)

Synonyms

price
vsmonetary value
1.0

The amount of money you must pay to buy something

is the broader measure of what an item could be sold for
cost
vsmonetary value
1.0

The amount of money needed to buy or do something

is about how much money an item would bring when sold
worth
vsmonetary value
485 1.4

An amount equal to a stated sum like five dollars

is the simple money amount something could bring when sold
amount of money
vsmonetary value
245 1.1

The total money people use, need, or have for a certain purpose

is the money amount tied specifically to an item's sale value
sum
vsmonetary value
141 1.0

An amount of money considered as a whole

is the specific money total someone could get for an item
valuation
vsmonetary value
  • Specialized
62 5.1

An estimate of how much something is worth

is the actual money amount the estimate aims to state
market value
vsmonetary value
40 2.8

The price something sells for in a market with many buyers and sellers

is the general amount achievable when the item is sold
purchase price
vsmonetary value
14 2.1

The amount of money you pay to buy something

is the general amount the item could be sold for, not just paid
selling price
vsmonetary value
6 2.7

The price at which something is sold to buyers

is the general amount an item could fetch when sold
economic value
vsmonetary value
  • Specialized
5 3.3

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

focuses only on the money an item would bring when sold

How Valuable

fortune
453 2.8
a lot of money
604 1.0
tidy sum
  • Informal
3 3.7
monetary value
7 3.3
pittance
15 7.9

Surface Forms

Morphology

monetary + value

The meaning is directly derived from combining 'monetary' (relating to money) and 'value' (worth), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can infer it refers to the amount of money something is worth. This is a straightforward, compositional noun phrase following common cross-linguistic patterns, making it immediately understandable.

Etymology

Monetary value comes from the simple idea of putting a price on something: monetary means money and value means worth, like a price tag on a shop item. So monetary value now means 'the amount of money something is worth'.