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Worth Amount Considered Someone's Usefulness Importance Money Food

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Someone's w____ is the value, usefulness, or importance that they are considered to have.Someone's worth is the value, usefulness, or importance that they are considered to have.
He had never had a woman of her worth as a friend.
The team would have need of a driver of his worth.
word worth
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adjective
If something is worth a particular amount of money, it can be sold for that amount or is considered to have that value.
These books might be worth £80 or £90 or more to a collector.
His mother inherited a farm worth 15,000 dollars a year.
The contract was worth £25 million a year.
If you say that something is worth having, you mean that it is pleasant or useful, and therefore a good thing to have.
He's decided to get a look at the house and see if it might be worth buying.
If this was what his job required, then the job wasn't really worth having.
Most things worth having never come easy.
If something is worth a particular action, or if an action is worth doing, it is considered to be important enough for that action.
No one is worth a great deal of sacrifice.
I am spending a lot of money and time on this boat, but it is worth it.
This restaurant is well worth a visit.
It is worth pausing to consider these statements from Mr Davies.
noun
Worth combines with amounts of money, so that when you talk about a particular amount of money 's worth of something, you mean the quantity of it that you can buy for that amount of money.
I went and bought about six dollars' worth of potato chips.
The prepaid sim card gives you ten euros-worth of calls.
'How many do you want?'—'I'll have a pound's worth.'
Worth combines with time expressions, so you can use worth when you are saying how long an amount of something will last . For example, a week's worth of food is the amount of food that will last you for a week .
You've got three years' worth of research money to do what you want with.
The film is his own compilation of more than 50 hours-worth of footage.
There's really not very much food down there. About two weeks' worth.
Someone's worth is the value, usefulness, or importance that they are considered to have.
He had never had a woman of her worth as a friend.
The team would have need of a driver of his worth.
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