valuation
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the act of valuing, esp a formal assessment of the worth of property, jewellery, etc
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the price arrived at by the process of valuing
the valuation of this property is considerable
I set a high valuation on technical ability
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Explanation
The process of figuring out exactly how much something is worth is known as valuation. Before you sell your old Pokemon cards, you should take them to an expert for a valuation. Whenever you determine the monetary value of something, that's valuation. However, you're most likely to come across this word in the context of banking or finance. The valuation of a company affects whether or not investors are interested in it, and the valuation of stocks determines how much a stockholder makes when she sells them. Valuation shares a root with value, from the Latin root valere, "be strong, be worth."
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They ended up making Lakers’ owner Mark Walter a $12.5 billion offer for a franchise he’d bought 14 months earlier at a $10 billion valuation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
The article showed that "Wondermind had no plan for its future - much less a plan for achieving a multi-billion dollar valuation," the lawsuit claims.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
She said the two-year dispute over the value of the house was "absolutely infuriating", with Roberts eventually accepting £40,000 less than an independent valuation she had been given.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
Several investors told the Financial Times that they expect Anthropic to seek a valuation of $2 trillion, or even $3 trillion, in October.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
Perhaps it was because Arthur was always a simple fellow, who took people at their own valuation easily.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
Chipmakers SK hynix and Samsung led the charge as they clawed back the losses sustained in a sector-wide global rout from the end of June and through July that wiped trillions of dollars off valuations.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
That high yield is also coming at a time when stock index valuations are still elevated, making the relative attraction of that long-term yield more competitive with equities than is typical.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
The $5.9 billion valuation for Liverpool would make it one of the highest valuations ever made for an English soccer club.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
Also supporting equity valuations is the improvement to profitability provided by the use of artificial intelligence, according to DeBusschere.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
I have, however, been informed that in valuations under escheats in the old records a separate value is never put upon villeins; their alienation without the land was apparently not contemplated.
From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Henry Hallam
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