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valuer

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val·ue  (vly)
n.
1. An amount, as of goods, services, or money, considered to be a fair and suitable equivalent for something else; a fair price or return.
2. Monetary or material worth: the fluctuating value of gold and silver.
3. Worth in usefulness or importance to the possessor; utility or merit: the value of an education.
4. A principle, standard, or quality considered worthwhile or desirable: "The speech was a summons back to the patrician values of restraint and responsibility" (Jonathan Alter).
5. Precise meaning or import, as of a word.
6. Mathematics An assigned or calculated numerical quantity.
7. Music The relative duration of a tone or rest.
8. The relative darkness or lightness of a color. See Table at color.
9. Linguistics The sound quality of a letter or diphthong.
10. One of a series of specified values: issued a stamp of new value.
tr.v. val·ued, val·u·ing, val·ues
1. To determine or estimate the worth or value of; appraise.
2. To regard highly; esteem. See Synonyms at appreciate.
3. To rate according to relative estimate of worth or desirability; evaluate: valued health above money.
4. To assign a value to (a unit of currency, for example).

[Middle English, from Old French, from feminine past participle of valoir, to be strong, be worth, from Latin valre; see wal- in Indo-European roots.]

valu·er n.

valuer [ˈvæljʊə]
n
(Business / Professions) a person who assesses the monetary worth of a work of art, jewel, house, etc.; appraiser
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.valuervaluer - someone who assesses the monetary worth of possessions
Britain, Great Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom
appraiser, valuator - one who estimates officially the worth or value or quality of things
Translations
valuer [ˈvaljʊəʳ] N (Brit) → tasador(a) m/f
valuer [ˈvæljuːər] nexpert m (en estimations)
value system nsystème m de valeurs
valuer
n (Brit) → Schätzer(in) m(f)
valuer [ˈvæljʊəʳ] nstimatore/trice
valuer [ˈvæljʊəʳ] nstimatore/trice


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Elevated is then your body, and raised up; with its delight, enraptureth it the spirit; so that it becometh creator, and valuer, and lover, and everything's benefactor.
Be so good as to write to Christie's for me, and ask them to send down a valuer to go through the pictures.
Garth had failed in the building business, which he had unfortunately added to his other avocations of surveyor, valuer, and agent, had conducted that business for a time entirely for the benefit of his assignees, and had been living narrowly, exerting himself to the utmost that he might after all pay twenty shillings in the pound.
 
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