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market value | Business English

market value
noun[ C or U ]
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COMMERCE (alsomarket price)
the price that something could be sold for at a particular time:
market value for sthThe total market value for the five-bedroom house was $127,498.
STOCK MARKET
the total value of a company's shares, or of all companies together on a particular stock market:
The company's market value is about $5 billion.

Examples of market value

market value
Older owner-occupiers are likely to have paid off their mortgages or have mortgages which are small in relation to the marketvalue of their homes.
There are two principal health economics approaches to the valuation of carers' time : opportunity cost and marketvalue.
Based on survey data, the gross marketvalue of crabs collected in 1996 was about $550, 000/year, almost twice the value of firewood.
Economists derive imputed costs by estimating the marketvalue of free or undercompensated land, labour, capital and management services.
Regionally, the relationship between site value and marketvalue within tenures is not straightforward.
The capital market clears when aggregate savings of the young equal the marketvalue of the representative firm, plus the new investment in the firm.
If the price of the futures contract goes down, the short seller can withdraw the variation margin equal to the gain in marketvalue.
The shadow marketvalue of the 100 million liability from the earlier example will be 81.95 million.
Second, the large corporations initiated new mass production techniques that destroyed the marketvalue of the craft skills upon which the union shop strategy depended.
The marketvalue of the guarantee is a natural economic metric.
In addition, the value of the bounding options measures the marketvalue of the maximum exposure of the exchange.
Marketvalue becomes the relevant figure, so the $5 million increase in asset values is not subject to five-year averaging.
The reason it does not, however, reflects the marketvalue of insurance against very low equity returns, even if they are uncommon.
Another problem concerns the situation where the original purchase price was below the marketvalue.
But the greater the world's overall abatement effort, the lower will be the marketvalue of quota.
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