worth one's while
adj1
Idiomatic Beneficial and important enough on which to spend time, effort, or money.
- Doing volunteer work to help others is truly worth one's while.
- Even if (2.3.5) holds, so that the worker's strategy is a best response to the firm's strategy, it must also be worth the firm's while to pay w#42;.1992, Robert Gibbons, A Primer in Game Theory, Prentice-Hall, page 110:
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