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# valuation

«valuation» in Mova's school dictionary: **an expert's decision about how much money something is worth** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a valuation, valuations)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A valuation is an expert's decision about how much money something is worth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/valuation/#m1)

2) Valuation can mean how much you think something or someone is worth in a general way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/valuation/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In money matters, before a house is sold or a mortgage is given, a surveyor makes a valuation. An antique expert gives a valuation of an old vase. In maths word problems, a valuation is a number of pounds or dollars that something is worth, not what it was sold for.

### examples

- The expert gave a valuation of £500 for the old clock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/valuation/#x1)
- The bank needed a valuation of the house. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/valuation/#x2)
- Grandma's ring had a high valuation. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/valuation/#x3)
- We had the painting valued, and the valuation surprised us. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/valuation/#x4)
- His own valuation of his skill was too high. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/valuation/#x5)
- The valuation of the company went up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/valuation/#x6)

### note

Countable. Verb: value, valued. A valuation is an estimate of worth; the actual price paid can be higher or lower.

### In the corpora

- [And if it be a female, then thy valuation shall be thirty shekels.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.838/)
- [But if he will indeed redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part thereof unto thy valuation.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.847/)
- [If he sanctify his field from the year of jubilee, according to thy valuation it shall stand.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.851/)
- [And all thy valuations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary; twenty gerahs shall be the shekel.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.859/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «valuation» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/valuation/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.