market value

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market value (plural market values)

  1. (finance) The price which a seller or insurer might reasonably expect to fetch for goods, services or securities on the open market.
    • 1959 November, J. N. Westwood, “The Railways of Canada”, in Trains Illustrated, page 555:
      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.

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