as in price
the monetary figure that is printed or shown on something (such as a coin or bill)
We paid $100 for tickets that had a face value of $50.
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Recent Examples of face value
The cost of making a penny was nearly 3.7 cents in fiscal 2024, the 19th consecutive fiscal year the coin has cost above face value to make, according to the U.S. Mint’s annual report.
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Alex Gangitano, The Hill, 10 Feb. 2025
That’s a mark-up of nearly 900 percent from their $15 face value.
—George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Apr. 2025
By some reports, fans have paid as much as 70 times the face value of a ticket price to obtain a ticket.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2025
The White House claimed that some reports show fans pay as much as 70 times the face value of tickets when buying from scalpers, with none of the profit going to the artists.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2025
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Alex Gangitano, The Hill, 10 Feb. 2025
That’s a mark-up of nearly 900 percent from their $15 face value.
—George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Apr. 2025
By some reports, fans have paid as much as 70 times the face value of a ticket price to obtain a ticket.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2025
The White House claimed that some reports show fans pay as much as 70 times the face value of tickets when buying from scalpers, with none of the profit going to the artists.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for face value
Noun
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Others argue that raising the minimum wage is associated with higher prices and job loss.—
Kinsey Crowley,
USA Today,
21 Apr. 2025
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Others who are doing the same are attracted by Norse Atlantic’s low price.—
Michael Goldstein,
Forbes.com,
21 Apr. 2025
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By creating programs that reduce or eliminate development fees, nonprofit organizations will have increased capacity to build more.—
Harrison Mantas,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
20 Apr. 2025
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The fee to obtain these files can also be far higher than the cost to retrieve a non-adoptee birth certificate.—
Juliana Kim,
NPR,
19 Apr. 2025
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But that price and the CPI cost of eggs overall, which was up 5.9% in March, may not accurately reflect the drop in wholesale prices that started in the middle of the month.—
Betty Lin-Fisher,
USA Today,
22 Apr. 2025
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Officials steer the economy by calibrating the benchmark interest rate on which bank loans and mortgages, among other debt, are based. Corporations and consumers, in general, like low interest rates because the cost of borrowing is cheaper.—
Yeo Boon Ping,
CNBC,
21 Apr. 2025
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Consumers face an overall average effective tariff rate of 28%, the highest since 1901, according to the Yale Budget Lab. Need a break?—
Bailey Schulz,
USA Today,
23 Apr. 2025
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Compounded semaglutide may have inflated the rate of side effects in the study, or could even explain why an unexpected percentage of patients experienced low blood sugar, Cohen explained.—
Simon Spichak,
Health,
22 Apr. 2025
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Wier initially didn’t receive credit for her connection series in the routine, lowering the start value.—
Henry Chappell,
Kansas City Star,
20 Apr. 2025
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Castellanos, in previous years, might not have seen the bigger value in that.—
Matt Gelb,
New York Times,
19 Apr. 2025
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The median list price climbed 6.2 percent in March, compared to a year earlier—the biggest increase since September 2022.—
Tom Rogers,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Apr. 2025
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In less than a decade, median list prices have nearly doubled—from $333,666 in 2016 to over $608,000 in March 2025.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
28 Apr. 2025
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“Face value.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/face%20value. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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