valuations

noun

plural of valuation
1
as in appraisals
the act of placing a value on the nature, character, or quality of something my valuation of your musical talent has nothing to do with our friendship

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2
as in values
the amount of money for which something will find a buyer the final auction bid was still less than the minimum valuation that we had specified as acceptable, so the painting was withdrawn

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Recent Examples of valuations Especially because the rankings are based on human evaluation, and humans make mistakes, are biased, or have their own individual priorities and valuations. — Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 29 Sep. 2026 What’s next With NHL valuations on the rise, the league is exploring expansion beyond 32 teams. — Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 29 Sep. 2026 Imagine all valuations dropping like crazy—down 30% or 40% over a few months. — Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2026 The companies that command premium valuations are rarely those built around indispensable founders. — Nicholas Pope, Forbes.com, 28 Sep. 2026 The valuations become even more extreme when looking at individual names. — Paulina Likos, CNBC, 25 Sep. 2026 The state tax commission ordered adjustments to Jackson County’s 2023 tax valuations, which the city expects to result in tax credits awarded this year. — Dylan Lysen, Kansas City Star, 22 Sep. 2026 Any slowdown risks undoing those stock valuations, which would in turn ding household wealth and diminish corporate investment. — Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 18 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for valuations
  1. appraisals
  2. values
  3. estimates
  4. prices
  5. assessments
  6. evaluations
  7. estimations
Noun
  • The shop also provides research and appraisals of instruments.
    — Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 25 Sep. 2026
  • The strange aspect of Hughes’s two-and-a-half-year spell at Liverpool is that appraisals of his performance fluctuated so wildly — and rarely presciently.
    — James Pearce, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of appraisals
Noun
  • To me, the GV70 is one of the best values in the luxury SUV category.
    — John Paul Senior Manager Public Affairs And Traffic Safety Aaa Northeast, Hartford Courant, 26 Sep. 2026
  • Republican leaders including Ted Cruz and Greg Abbott are reviving anti-sharia rhetoric ahead of the midterm elections, portraying Islamic religious guidance as a threat to American law and constitutional values.
    — David Crary, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of values
Noun
  • Outside estimates put the expense at well over a hundred billion dollars.
    — Robin Wright, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2026
  • Earlier on-chain estimates put the outflows at about $183 million, but Bitget said those analyses had not captured activity across all affected blockchains.
    — Matthew Tan, CNBC, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of estimates
Noun
  • Republicans have expressed growing pessimism about their chances in the election, which will determine control of Congress, as the president has repeatedly dismissed concerns about high costs and gas prices as his unpopular war in Iran drags on.
    — MICHELLE L. PRICE, Arkansas Online, 2 Oct. 2026
  • The cost of steel is up more than 50%, while copper and aluminum prices have nearly doubled, according to Julio Dal Poz, a managing director at FTI Consulting’s energy transition practice.
    — Sam Birchall, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of prices
Noun
  • Participants then completed assessments of self-compassion, positive affect, stress, etc.
    — Gili Malinsky, CNBC, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Organizations must translate governance into ownership, controls, risk assessments, testing, monitoring, incident response and measurable accountability.
    — Muhammad Affan Habib, Forbes.com, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of assessments
Noun
  • Those evaluations are included here, and the committee’s full report, including details about its process, is online.
    — Jon Regardie, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026
  • The joint research team launched first-phase, hands-on evaluations of superconducting quantum RF sensors for signals intelligence applications at the Jesper Munch Quantum Laboratories at Adelaide University in South Australia.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of evaluations
Noun
  • This is encouraging — trustworthy system should be able to pump the breaks and realize when data inputs are too unreliable to make accurate estimations.
    — Euan Ashley, STAT, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Newsom and the analysts sometimes differ in their estimations.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 30 June 2026
Definition of estimations

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“Valuations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/valuations. Accessed 4 Oct. 2026.

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