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street value
noun
the monetary worth of a commodity, usually an illicit commodity such as a drug, considered as the price it would fetch when sold to the ultimate user
Example Sentences
Customs officers found nearly five kilos of cocaine with a street value of £1.6m hidden in a false bottom in Sandiford's suitcase when she arrived on a flight from Thailand in 2012.
Coast Guard announced that it had seized the largest haul of narcotics in its history—76,140 pounds’ worth, with a street value of $473 million, and potent enough to create 23 million lethal doses, in 19 separate interdictions in the Caribbean and the Eastern Pacific.
It had a street value of around £200,000 and resulted in Yamin getting a six-and-a-half year prison sentence for possession with intent to supply.
In May, 185kg of cocaine, worth an estimated street value of £18.5m, was also seized in a joint NCA and Border Force operation.
The potential street value in Australia was estimated at $1.8 million, according to Customs and Border Protection.
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