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   worth

   /wəːθ/

   adjective

   • 1. equivalent in value to the sum or item specified: "jewellery worth £450 was taken"
   • ▪ having income or property amounting to a specified sum: "she is worth £10 million"
   • 2. sufficiently good, important, or interesting to be treated or regarded in the way specified: "the museums in the district are well worth a visit"
   • ▪ used to suggest that the specified course of action may be advisable: "the company's service schemes are worth checking out"

   noun

   • 1. the level at which someone or something deserves to be valued or rated: "they had to listen to every piece of gossip and judge its worth"
   • ▪ an amount of a commodity equivalent to a specified sum of money: "he admitted stealing 10,000 pounds' worth of computer systems" Similar valuefinancial valuemonetary valuepriceasking priceselling pricecostvaluationquotationestimateassessment
   • ▪ high value or merit: "he is noble, and gains his position by showing his inner worth" Similar benefitadvantageusevaluevirtueusefulnessutilityservicegainprofitavailvalidityhelpassistanceaiddesirabilityattractivenessallureappealsignificancepointsenseinformal:mileagepercentagearchaic:behoofworthinessmeritmeritoriousnesscreditvalueexcellencecalibrequalitystatureeminencegreatnessconsequenceimportancesignificancedistinctionsuperioritygiftstalentsstrengthsendowments
   • 2. the amount that could be achieved or produced in a specified time: "the companies have debts greater than two years' worth of their sales"

   Word Origin Old Englishw(e)orth (adjective and noun), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch waard and German wert.

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   What is a person's worth?

   • Someone's worth is the value, usefulness, or importance that they are considered to have. He had never had a woman of her worth as a friend. The team would have need of a driver of his worth. 7. 8. 9.

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   What does worth mean?

   • interesting or useful for somebody to do It will be worth your while to come to the meeting. He'll do the job if you make it worth his while (= pay him well). Definition of worth adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

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   What is an example of worth?

   • Worth is defined as having value, whether in money an example of worth is a house being valued at $500,000 material value, esp. as expressed in terms of money or some other medium of exchange the amount or quantity of something that may be had for a given sum: a dollar's worth of nuts “Worth” refers to the value of a person or an object.

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   Is worth a noun or adjective?

   • "Worth" can be used as a noun or as an adjective (or, more accurately, a predicative adjective). In everyday conversations, "worth" is used more often as an adjective than as a noun.

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   usefulness or importance, as to the world, to a person, or for a purpose: Your worth to the world is inestimable. value, as in money. a quantity of something of a specified value: ten cents' worth of candy.