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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The buzzy startup Instinct, which is fundraising at a $2.5 billion valuation, promises to handle emails and more, but some early users raised privacy concerns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
The price is a marked increase from the $7 billion valuation that served as the basis for initial negotiations with Nvidia late last year, according to the Financial Times.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
How did Bernstein come up with its valuation for bitcoin?
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
Quite the opposite: As analysts have raised their earnings expectations, the valuation multiple has actually gone down.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 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
That saw a painful selloff in July that wiped trillions off valuations.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
James Murray, financial secretary to the Treasury, said the new review would look at "a rethink of valuations - so that we can build a fairer system for the future".
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
Europe’s bank stocks no longer trade at the rock-bottom valuations seen a few years ago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Labor issues such as the one threatening Major League Baseball could put a freeze on valuations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
His hoardings had gone straightway into options, at prices based on farming valuations where farms were cheap.
From The Tempering by Charles Neville Buck
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