market value

the value of a business, property, etc., in terms of what it can be sold for on the open market; current value (distinguished from book value).

market price.

Origin of market value

First recorded in 1685–95

It is raising the price of men and putting a market-value on life.

Crowds |Gerald Stanley Lee
Dried without sufficient air, their color is changed, and their quality and market-value injured.

Soil Culture |J. H. Walden
There was no other means, however, of ascertaining the market-value of his sketch, so he put the objectionable question.

The Golden Dream |R.M. Ballantyne
We thanked him, and handed him two fathoms of cotton cloth, four times the market-value of his present.

A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries |David Livingstone

Rent-charges had a market-value, varying with time and place, and expressed as a number of years' purchase of the rent-charge.

The Principles of Economics |Frank A. Fetter

market value

the amount obtainable on the open market for the sale of property, financial assets, or goods and services Compare par value, book value