FACE VALUE • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Face value

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/feɪs vˈælju/ Listen

Face value

noun

The value of a security that is set by the company issuing it; unrelated to market value. Synonyms: nominal value, par value.

The apparent worth as opposed to the real worth.

See more definitions of Face value...

See images of 'Face value'

Etymology of 'Face value'

Share |

"Face value" Quotes from Famous Books

... lively enmity in the case of Latisan, he was admitting to himself that he rather admired the young wildcat from the woods. At any rate, Latisan had accepted at face value Mern's repeated dictum that if the other fellow could get Mern while Mern was set on getting the fellow, there would be no grudges. Latisan's come-back, the chief reflected, was crude work, but it was characteristically after the style of the men of the ...

— Joan of Arc of the North Woods • Holman Day

... he did not conspire in sufficient numbers to impede or defeat the end in view, counted only as a food-consuming atom in the human mass which was set to work out the purpose of the master mind and hand. His face value in the problem was that of a living wage. If he sought to enhance his value by opposing the master hand, the master hand seized him ...

— The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore • John R. Hutchinson

... to this as evidence of a repressed incest desire. The Freudians are too simple. It is always wrong to accept a dream-meaning at its face value. Sleep is the time when we are given over to the automatic processes of the inanimate universe. Let us not forget this. Dreams are automatic in their nature. The psyche possesses remarkably few dynamic images. In the case of the boy who ...

— Fantasia of the Unconscious • D. H. Lawrence

... walk, turning back toward the Manor, and I told him of how matters stood with Jerry and Una. He had not met her, but he knew her history and was, I think, willing to accept her upon her face value. ...

— Paradise Garden - The Satirical Narrative of a Great Experiment • George Gibbs

... harm to take what seemed to have happened at face value. Some pretty grim event might be shaping up, in a ...

— Novice • James H. Schmitz

More quotes...