valuation

[ val-yoo-ey-shuhn ]

noun

1. the act of estimating or setting the value of something; appraisal.
2. an estimated value or worth.
3. the awareness or acknowledgment of the quality, nature, excellence, or the like of something:

   public valuation of the importance of education.

valuation

/ ˌvæljʊˈeɪʃən /

noun

1. the act of valuing, esp a formal assessment of the worth of property, jewellery, etc
2. the price arrived at by the process of valuing

   I set a high valuation on technical ability

   the valuation of this property is considerable

Derived Forms

• ˌvaluˈationally, adverb
• ˌvaluˈational, adjective

Other Words From

• valu·ation·al adjective
• valu·ation·al·ly adverb
• preval·u·ation noun
• self-valu·ation noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of valuation¹

1520–30; value + -ation; compare Middle French valuation

Example Sentences

When we interviewed Jason Robins last year, DraftKings was still a privately held company, with a likely valuation in the single-digit billions.

From Freakonomics

NSO Group’s previous owners bought the company in 2014 for $130 million, less than one-seventh of the valuation it was sold for last year.

From MIT Technology Review

The funding round increases its equity valuation to $46 billion, Bloomberg reported last week.

From Fortune

The vacation rental company was flirting with an IPO before the pandemic, back when its valuation was north of $30 billion.

From Quartz

Of the 40 publicly-listed cannabis companies in North America worth at least $40 million, only seven saw their stock market valuation grow from April 2019 to July 2020.

From Quartz

Last year, the company raised funding at a $2 billion valuation and shot down a $3 billion acquisition offer from Facebook.

From The Daily Beast

The company, which has three employees, earned a valuation of $5-10 million.

From The Daily Beast

Never mind that she's as cute as a button, her lens of self-valuation is as universal as it is poignant.

From The Daily Beast

The company reported $2.4 billion in annual sales and could snatch a valuation as high as $5 billion.

From The Daily Beast

The popular storage service is the latest young tech firm to coin a sky-high valuation.

From The Daily Beast

It is not needful that this expectation or benefit should possess a pecuniary valuation.

From Project Gutenberg

She knew that the world takes us if not quite at our own valuation, yet as being the character we assume to be.

From Project Gutenberg

Where's the swindle to sell what others want to buy and at their own valuation?

From Project Gutenberg

It was one of the first States in the Union to make a physical valuation to determine the cost of these plants.

From Project Gutenberg

His simple comforts, his old friends, these he valued more than riches, and the valuation that he put upon them was the right one.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• assessment
• cost
• estimate