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What (who) is worth - definition
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Worth (disambiguation)
worth
¦ adjective
1. equivalent in value to the sum or item specified.
having income or property amounting to a specified sum.
2. deserving to be treated or regarded in the way specified.
¦ noun
1. the value or merit of someone or something.
an amount of a commodity equivalent to a specified sum of money.
2. the amount that could be achieved or produced in a specified time.
Phrases
for all one is worth informal as energetically or enthusiastically as one can.
for what it is worth used when offering a suggestion or opinion without making a claim as to its validity.
Origin
OE w(e)orth (adjective andnoun), of Gmc origin.
worth
n.
1.
Merit, desert, worthiness, excellence, virtue, credit, character, integrity.
2.
Value, price, cost.
Worth
·adj Valuable; of worthy; estimable; also, worth while.
II. Worth ·adj Deserving of;
- in a good or bad sense, but chiefly in a good sense.
III. Worth ·adj Having possessions equal to; having wealth or estate to the value of.
IV. Worth ·adj Equal in value to; furnishing an equivalent for; proper to be exchanged for.
V. Worth ·adj Value in respect of moral or personal qualities; excellence; virtue; eminence; desert; merit; usefulness; as, a man or magistrate of great worth.
VI. Worth ·adj That quality of a thing which renders it valuable or useful; sum of valuable qualities which render anything useful and sought; value; hence, often, value as expressed in a standard, as money; equivalent in exchange; price.
- now used only in the phrases, woe worth the day, woe worth the man, ·etc., in which the verb is in the ·imv, and the nouns day, man, ·etc., are in the dative. Woe be to the day, woe be to the man, ·etc., are equivalent phrases.
Examples of use of worth
1. Bacon, for all his butchery, found faces worth painting, and repainting; people worth knowing, and, it seems, worth loving.
2. The top recipients nationwide are: _California, $17 million worth of equipment. _Indiana, $10.5 million worth of items. _North Carolina, $10 million worth.
3. "If somebody is worth shooting once, they‘re worth shooting twice," he said.
4. Eleven land deals worth Dh138 million and two mortgages worth Dh4 million were conducted.
5. With an estimated worth of 7.5 billion, Abramovich lags behind the worlds richest men such as Bill Gates, worth 24 billion, and Ellison, worth 10 billion.