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valuation [ val-yoo-ey -shuh n ] SHOW IPA
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noun
the act of estimating or setting the value of something; appraisal. an estimated value or worth. the awareness or acknowledgment of the quality, nature, excellence, or the like of something: public valuation of the importance of education.
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Origin of valuation 1520–30;
value +
-ation ; compare Middle French
valuation
OTHER WORDS FROM valuation val·u·a·tion·al, adjective val·u·a·tion·al·ly, adverb pre·val·u·a·tion, noun self-val·u·a·tion, noun
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How to use valuation in a sentence When we interviewed Jason Robins last year, DraftKings was still a privately held company, with a likely valuation in the single-digit billions.
NSO Group’s previous owners bought the company in 2014 for $130 million, less than one-seventh of the valuation it was sold for last year.
The funding round increases its equity valuation to $46 billion, Bloomberg reported last week.
The vacation rental company was flirting with an IPO before the pandemic, back when its valuation was north of $30 billion.
Of the 40 publicly-listed cannabis companies in North America worth at least $40 million, only seven saw their stock market valuation grow from April 2019 to July 2020.
Last year, the company raised funding at a $2 billion valuation and shot down a $3 billion acquisition offer from Facebook.
The company, which has three employees, earned a valuation of $5-10 million.
Never mind that she's as cute as a button, her lens of self-valuation is as universal as it is poignant.
The company reported $2.4 billion in annual sales and could snatch a valuation as high as $5 billion.
The popular storage service is the latest young tech firm to coin a sky-high valuation .
It is not needful that this expectation or benefit should possess a pecuniary valuation .
She knew that the world takes us if not quite at our own valuation , yet as being the character we assume to be.
Where's the swindle to sell what others want to buy and at their own valuation ?
It was one of the first States in the Union to make a physical valuation to determine the cost of these plants.
His simple comforts, his old friends, these he valued more than riches, and the valuation that he put upon them was the right one.
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British Dictionary definitions for valuation
valuation
/ (ˌvæljʊˈeɪʃən ) /
noun
the act of valuing, esp a formal assessment of the worth of property, jewellery, etc
the price arrived at by the process of valuing the valuation of this property is considerable ; I set a high valuation on technical ability
Derived forms of valuation valuational , adjective valuationally , adverb Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition
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