nominal value

American  

noun

1. book or par value, as of securities; face value.

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nominal value British  

noun

1. another name for par value

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Etymology

Origin of nominal value

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

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nominal value

And the most expensive Big Mac ever in terms of a nominal value?

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026

Deflation meant that a stock that retained its nominal value was actually rising in value.

From Barron's ● Apr. 19, 2026

Each one-year bond has a nominal value of 1,000 Ukrainian hryvnia and offered an 11% interest rate.

From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2022

Humans, focused on nominal value, generally do not, and so lenders suffer as inflation erodes promised receipts.

From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2016

At school he had scraped into the Sixth by a hair's-breadth; at the University he had secured a degree of purely nominal value.

From A Safety Match by Ian Hay