Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To set a value for; appraise.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To place a value on; compute the value of; appraise.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To estimate the value of something; to appraise or to make a valuation.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Back-formation from valuation.]

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Examples

  • One of the major things that we library and info types teach people who are going to go out on the web is to valuate their sources.

    Archive 2009-05-01 kittenpie 2009

  • Our economy can either await the correction in the federal legislature, or import workers to valuate surburbia up.

    "The Jobs Americans Won't Do": The Fallacy and the Reformulation, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • One of the major things that we library and info types teach people who are going to go out on the web is to valuate their sources.

    Vindication kittenpie 2009

  • They have also invested in developing new measures of carbon emissions in order to benchmark progress in this area and valuate firms.

    Insurance and reinsurance in a changing climate 2009

  • Physical units are also necessary to valuate those flows.

    Energy quality 2008

  • Last but not least, the shop permits all its customers to valuate and review products: this is a great because permits other customers to better understand what they are buying.

    Archive 2008-06-01 2008

  • Now how do the Wall Street folks who are trying to buy and sell these mortgages valuate mortgages that they don't have any idea what they're worth anymore?

    CNN Transcript Apr 19, 2008 2008

  • While I can rant all day about Wall Street – the insane tendency to over-valuate, the shortsighted emphasis on growing quarterly profits, the stupefying amount it pays out in bonuses – but this is really about something much more fundamental, namely why do we accept gambling on the economy as a practical way of doing business?

    America's House of Cards Economy 2007

  • And did you valuate Amptoons the cartoon before deciding what a good offer for Amptoons.com would be?

    I sold Amptoons.com: Comments are now open. 2006

  • You can be as fervent for social justice as you wish, but the ability to valuate work is a functional requirement of all economies, not just capitalist ones.

    A tale of one protest 2006

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