(v. t.) To ask the price of; to bid, bargain, or chaffer for.
(a.) To beat down the price of; to lessen the value of; to depreciate.
Example Sentences:
(1) Panos Skourletis, spokesman for Syriza, the main opposition party, said: "This decision cheapens the prize and more importantly harms the institution of the Nobel peace award.
(2) The notion that it might start with another body on another beach seemed preposterous if not a little cheapening of what went before.
(3) Tech culture is even helping cheapen the very concept of sleep, Crary notes: "sleep mode" on your laptop just means it's waiting until it can be productive again.
(4) Why cheapen her by putting her on the face on the 20 dollar bill – the very symbol of the racialized capitalism she was fleeing?
(5) Such a belief would certainly cheapen the memory of the Shoah.
(6) What he's given them isn't something like the Home Run Chase between McGwire and Sosa, which was retroactively cheapened by later revelations or Barry Bonds' quest to beat Hank Aaron's home run record, which was an utterly joyless pursuit even at the time.
(7) There is no way to dehumanise him that doesn't also cheapen our humanity.
(8) You are not just attacking us, you are cheapening the sacrifice made by those we lost.” This story was amended on 3 August 2016 to clarify that Adam Kinzinger has not backed Donald Trump.
(9) • Turnover 7th highest in League £129m , down from £130m in 2014 • Income Gate and match-day income £27m; TV and broadcasting £77m; Commercial £25m • Wage bill 17th highest in League £65m , down from £78m in 2014 • Wages as proportion of turnover 50% • Profit before tax £36m , following £19m profit in 2014 • Net debt £81m • Interest payable £0.02m • Highest-paid director Unnamed, £150,000 (Lee Charnley was the managing director) State they are in: These figures are for the year supporters complained that Mike Ashley was running Newcastle as a cheapened flagbearer for his Sports Direct empire, aiming to finish mid-table, sniff at cup runs, and bank TV fortunes.
(10) I’ve cheapened my movie!’.” Or as Brand puts it: “The revolution cannot be boring.” A public feeling economic anxiety , at turns enraged and defeated, might agree.
(11) He had made no attempt to hide his fear that a colour magazine would cheapen the quality of his paper.
(12) The use of UMdex-40 as the main colloid in UW cheapened the solution, equalled the preservation success of UW and UW-plain but surpassed UW-plain in edema prevention, and exceeded UW concerning recovery of graft microcirculation.
(13) Even those favoured groups who are having banknotes waved at them may end up feeling cheapened by this descent into cash-and-carry politics.
(14) In an age of dating apps, transactional “hookups”, digital connection by proxy, do they think we’ve cheapened relationships?
(15) The facts speak for themselves; the adjectives and the sarcasm have the counterintuitive effect of cheapening them, of imposing on the world a disappointingly crude and simplistic argument.
(16) I’ve cheapened my movie!’” “People want to go home and have sex after your movie,” he said.
(17) The rise in unconditional offer making to applicants depresses admissions officers and cheapens our product.
(18) Apples and oranges here, saying otherwise cheapens your own achievement.
(19) But his reaction was instant: “This decision cheapens the prize and more importantly harms the institution of the Nobel Peace award.
(20) A weaker yuan cheapens Chinese exports, shoring up its manufacturing sector.
Value
Definition:
(n.) The property or aggregate properties of a thing by which it is rendered useful or desirable, or the degree of such property or sum of properties; worth; excellence; utility; importance.
(n.) Worth estimated by any standard of purchasing power, especially by the market price, or the amount of money agreed upon as an equivalent to the utility and cost of anything.
(n.) Precise signification; import; as, the value of a word; the value of a legal instrument
(n.) Esteem; regard.
(n.) The relative length or duration of a tone or note, answering to quantity in prosody; thus, a quarter note [/] has the value of two eighth notes [/].
(n.) In an artistical composition, the character of any one part in its relation to other parts and to the whole; -- often used in the plural; as, the values are well given, or well maintained.
(n.) Valor.
(v. t.) To estimate the value, or worth, of; to rate at a certain price; to appraise; to reckon with respect to number, power, importance, etc.
(v. t.) To rate highly; to have in high esteem; to hold in respect and estimation; to appreciate; to prize; as, to value one for his works or his virtues.
(v. t.) To raise to estimation; to cause to have value, either real or apparent; to enhance in value.
(v. t.) To be worth; to be equal to in value.
Example Sentences:
(1) Furthermore, it had early diagnostic (seven days) as well as prognostic value, as revealed by response to therapy and decrease in COA titer.
(2) Steady-state values of cell, glucose, and cellulase concentration oxygen tension, and outlet gas oxygen partial pressure were recorded.
(3) Although the mean values for all hemodynamic variables between the two placebo periods were minimally changed, the differences in individual patients were striking.
(4) The findings indicate that there is still a significant incongruence between the value structure of most family practice units and that of their institutions but that many family practice units are beginning to achieve parity of promotion and tenure with other departments in their institutions.
(5) The angiographic appearances are highly characteristic and equal in value to a histological diagnosis.
(6) Since MIRD Committee has not published "S" values for Tl-200 and Tl-202, these have been calculated by a computer code and are reported.
(7) It was found that linear extrapolations of log k' versus ET(30) plots to the polarity of unmodified aqueous mobile phase gave a more reliable value of log k'w than linear regressions of log k' versus volume percent.
(8) Virtually every developed country has some form of property tax, so the idea that valuing residential property is uniquely difficult, or that it would be widely evaded, is nonsense.
(9) The goals in control patients were to attain normal values for all hemodynamic measurements.
(10) gamma-Aminobutyric acid (GABA) and glutamate release from the treated side was higher than the control value during the first 2-3 h, a result indicating an important role of glial cells in the inactivation of released transmitter.
(11) The statistical T value calculated for the LP-TAE group showed that the administration of LP, the tumor size, intrahepatic metastasis, portal vein infiltration, and serum total bilirubin and alpha-fetoprotein levels significantly (P < 0.01) affected the patients' survival.
(12) Among the groups investigated, the subjects with gastric tumors presented the greatest values.
(13) By 24 hr, rough endoplasmic reticulum in thecal cells increased from 4.2 to 7% of cell volume, while the amount in granulosa cells increased from less than 3.5% to more than 10%; the quantity remained relatively constant in the theca but declined to prestimulation values in the granulosa layer.
(14) Needle acupuncture did, however, increase the pain threshold compared with the initial value (alpha = 0.1%).
(15) When the data correlating DHT with protein synthesis using both labelling techniques were combined, the curves were parallel and a strong correlation was noted between DHT and protein synthesis over a wide range of values (P less than 0.001).
(16) Schneiderlin, valued at an improbable £27m, and the currently injured Jay Rodriguez are wanted by their former manager Mauricio Pochettino at Spurs, but the chairman Ralph Krueger has apparently called a halt to any more outgoings, saying: “They are part of the core that we have decided to keep at Southampton.” He added: “Jay Rodriguez and Morgan Schneiderlin are not for sale and they will be a part of our club as we enter the new season.” The new manager Ronald Koeman has begun rebuilding by bringing in Dusan Tadic and Graziano Pellè from the Dutch league and Krueger said: “We will have players coming in, we will make transfers to strengthen the squad.
(17) Minimal levels were evident 16 weeks after irradiation; Hct then increased, but remained below preirradiation values.
(18) The norepinephrine values remained constant on the three days.
(19) The mean and median values in the nondiabetic group are higher than in previously published reports.
(20) However, this predictive value disappeared when five baseline parameters found to predict the outcome (neopterin, beta 2-microglobulin, p24 antigen, anti-p18 antibody and immunoglobulin A) were adjusted.