What does "market value" mean?

The price which a seller or insurer might reasonably expect to fetch for goods, services or securities on the open market.

What is a synonym for "market value"?

Common synonyms include: market price, account, asking price, bearish prices, bid price, book value.

Market value

noun

noun ·Uncommon ·College level

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Noun

1
The price which a seller or insurer might reasonably expect to fetch for goods, services or securities on the open market.
"Yet when a commuter fare increase is made, the volume of protest from passengers is astonishing; some even accuse the railways of robbing suburbanites, for any increase in fares takes hundreds of dollars from the market value of suburban homes."
2
the price at which buyers and sellers trade the item in an open marketplace wordnet

Synonyms

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market price account asking price bearish prices bid price book value

Antonyms

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nonmarket product unpriced nature book value face value

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"Yet when a commuter fare increase is made, the volume of protest from passengers is astonishing; some even accuse the railways of robbing suburbanites, for any increase in fares takes hundreds of dollars from the market value of suburban homes."

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