ADJ
- high, low
- the high value of the dollar
- full, total
- real, true
- nominal
- a share with a nominal value of £20
- face
- At yesterday's auction an old coin sold for many times more than its face value of 20 pence
- residual
- a residual value of 10% of its original cost
- resale
- Regular servicing will add to the resale value of your PC
VERB + VALUE
- place, put, set
- It's hard to put a value on a company with large assets and turnover but low profits
- add
- increase, raise
- double, triple, etc.
- Dramatic developments on the stock market tripled the value of his shares
- lower, reduce
- hold, keep
- The piano has held its value
- calculate, work out
VALUE + VERB
- double, triple, etc.
- appreciate, go up, increase
- decrease, depreciate, fall, go down
PREP
- in ~
- The land has dropped in value
- to the ~ of
- Jewellery to the value of a million pounds was stolen last night
PHRASES
- an increase/a rise in value, a drop/fall/reduction in value
ADJ
- excellent, good, great, outstanding
- poor
PHRASES
- value for money
- Though a little more expensive, the larger model gives better value for money
ADJ
- enormous, great, high, immense, incalculable, tremendous
- doubtful, dubious, limited, low
- His published account of his travels is of dubious value to other explorers
- lasting
- main, real, true
- practical, sentimental, symbolic
VERB + VALUE
- have
- The stolen necklace only had sentimental value for her
- attach, place, put, set
- He places a high value on marriage
VALUE + VERB
- be, lie
- The real value of the book lies in its wonderful characterization
PREP
- of ~
- He didn't say anything of value
- ~ to
- Pottery fragments are of great value to archaeologists
ADJ
- dominant
- the dominant values of a society
- conservative, conventional, traditional
- common, shared, universal
- What shared values do you have with your friends?
- human
- aesthetic, cultural, educational, ethical, moral, political, social, spiritual
- We need to be guided by our moral values
- family
- The party's election campaign emphasized its belief in family values
- middle-class, Victorian, Western
- parental
- the rejection of parental values by a child
- democratic, liberal
QUANT
- set
- a prevailing set of cultural values
VERB + VALUE
- have, hold
- They hold very middle-class values
- cherish, encourage, foster
- Is it the role of schools to foster spiritual values?
- hold onto, preserve
- a society that has failed to preserve its traditional values
VALUE + NOUN
- system
- a common value system
PREP
- at
- The company has recently been valued at $6 billion
ADV
- greatly, highly, particularly
- increasingly
- positively
- negatively
- Housework is negatively valued as a retreat from a disliked alternative?employment work
- rightly
- the fear of losing the independence that they rightly value
- socially
- one of the most socially valued roles in contemporary society?being a parent
VERB + VALUE
- learn to
- learning to value the ordinary things in life
PREP
- as
- I value her very highly as a friend
- for
- He hated to be valued for his looks alone