VALUATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does valuation mean? 

• VALUATION (noun)
  The noun VALUATION has 2 senses:

1. an appraisal of the value of something

2. assessed price

  Familiarity information: VALUATION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VALUATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An appraisal of the value of something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

evaluation; rating; valuation

Context example:

he set a high valuation on friendship

Hypernyms ("valuation" is a kind of...):

appraisal; assessment (the classification of someone or something with respect to its worth)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "valuation"):

overvaluation (too high a value or price assigned to something)

undervaluation (too low a value or price assigned to something)

pricing (the evaluation of something in terms of its price)

reevaluation (the evaluation of something a second time (or more))

grade; mark; score (a number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance))

bond rating (an evaluation by a rating company of the probability that a particular bond issue will default)

Derivation:

valuate (evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Assessed price

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Context example:

the valuation of this property is much too high

Hypernyms ("valuation" is a kind of...):

damage; price; terms (the amount of money needed to purchase something)

 Context examples 

This information would then be used by a separate valuation system to determine the agent’s likeability.

(Scientists identify possible source of the ‘Uncanny Valley’ in the brain, University of Cambridge)

It has dawned upon me that I have never placed a proper valuation upon womankind.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

And yet, much as she had liked him she had liked the bourgeois standard of valuation more.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

However, it was so much to him that for India he was bound, and Julia with him; and Julia went into the country to take leave of her relations; and the house was put into a perfect suit of bills, announcing that it was to be let or sold, and that the furniture (Mangle and all) was to be taken at a valuation.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He disdained such valuation.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

In previous studies, the researchers have shown that this brain region contains a generic valuation system that judges all kinds of stimuli; for example, they showed previously that this brain area signals the reward value of pleasant high-fat milkshakes and also of social stimuli such as pleasant touch.

(Scientists identify possible source of the ‘Uncanny Valley’ in the brain, University of Cambridge)