market value

noun

the value of a business, property, etc., in terms of what it can be sold for on the open market; current value (distinguished from book value).

market price.

Words nearby market value

market research, market segment, market segmentation, market share, market town, market value, market-research, market-test, marketable, marketable title, marketeer

Origin of market value

First recorded in 1685–95

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Examples from the Web for market value

It is raising the price of men and putting a market-value on life.
Crowds|Gerald Stanley Lee
Dried without sufficient air, their color is changed, and their quality and market-value injured.
Soil Culture|J. H. Walden
There was no other means, however, of ascertaining the market-value of his sketch, so he put the objectionable question.
The Golden Dream|R.M. Ballantyne
We thanked him, and handed him two fathoms of cotton cloth, four times the market-value of his present.
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries|David Livingstone

Rent-charges had a market-value, varying with time and place, and expressed as a number of years' purchase of the rent-charge.
The Principles of Economics|Frank A. Fetter

British Dictionary definitions for market value

market value

noun

the amount obtainable on the open market for the sale of property, financial assets, or goods and servicesCompare par value, book value

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