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; toappraise or to make avaluation .
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
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Examples
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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.
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Our economy can either await the correction in the federal legislature, or import workers to valuate surburbia up.
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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.
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They have also invested in developing new measures of carbon emissions in order to benchmark progress in this area and valuate firms.
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Physical units are also necessary to valuate those flows.
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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.
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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?
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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?
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And did you valuate Amptoons the cartoon before deciding what a good offer for Amptoons.com would be?
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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.
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