Valuation
[væljʊ'eɪʃ(ə)n] or [,vælju'eʃən]
Definition
(noun.) assessed price; 'the valuation of this property is much too high'.
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Definition
(n.) The act of valuing, or of estimating value or worth; the act of setting a price; estimation; appraisement; as, a valuation of lands for the purpose of taxation.
(n.) Value set upon a thing; estimated value or worth; as, the goods sold for more than their valuation.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Appraisement, estimation.[2]. Value, worth.
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Examples
- As soon as the loss of the wagons and horses was generally known, all the owners came upon me for the valuation which I had given bond to pay. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The nature of standards of valuation. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The Valuation of Studies. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- According to that valuation, the lands belonging to the bishop of Breslaw are taxed at twenty-five per cent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The advertisement promised payment according to the valuation, in case any wagons or horses should be lost. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- A government resting on a valuation of property, in which the rich have power and the poor man is deprived of it. Plato. The Republic.
- Whatever she had, she seemed to survey only to pick flaws in it; but, once fairly away, there was no end to her valuation of it. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- There is no question of comparative value, and hence none of valuation. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Returns are very well occasionally, but I like a fair valuation. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Taxes upon the produce of land may be levied, either in kind, or, according to a certain valuation in money. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The survey and valuation of Bohemia is said to have been the work of more than a hundred years. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- When a house is rebuilt, improved, or enlarged, there is a new valuation, and the tax is rated accordingly. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- There ought to be a new valuation made from time to time, said Sir James. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The valuation, according to which each different parish and district is assessed to this tax, is always the same. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The valuation, indeed, according to which the houses are rated, though very unequal, is said to be always below the real value. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Everywhere else the mind is distracted and misled by false valuations and false perspectives. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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