market value
noun1
Business, Finance The price which a seller or insurer might reasonably expect to fetch for goods, services or securities on the open market.
- Yet when a commuter fare increase is made, the volume of protest from passengers is astonishing; some even accuse the railways of robbing suburbanites, for any increase in fares takes hundreds of dollars from the market value of suburban homes.1959 November, J. N. Westwood, “The Railways of Canada”, in Trains Illustrated, page 555:
- Whether in cash or in the purchase of artifacts at prices far above their market value, the issue of giving (and taking back) money has become the fulcrum of both tragedy and politics.2025 November 25, Marco Respinti, “Refunding Salvation: Inside the Unification Church’s Independent Compensation Committee”, in Bitter Winter:
- Derived terms
- fair market value, sexual market value