face valuenoun [ C usually singular ]
uk/ˌfeɪs ˈvæl.juː/us/ˌfeɪs ˈvæl.juː/the value or price that is shown on something such as stamps, coins, or paper money
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Costs & expenses
- aliment
- alimony
- asking price
- carrying charge
- charge
- compensation
- corkage
- cost an arm and a leg/a small fortune idiom
- cost-of-living index
- damage
- dent
- expense
- flat rate
- indirect cost
- maintenance
- price war
- running costs
- settlement
- stoppage
- worth
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Examples from literature
- As between bank and bank, this use of the fingerprint in bank papers of large face value is especially applicable.
- As he fingered the green slip whose face value was one hundred and twenty dollars, one fourth of his yearly stipend, he felt relieved, and at the same time oddly reluctant.
- Just now the shares of very few shipping companies are worth their face value.
- The bank will then receive from the Treasury "National bank notes" equal in amount to the face value of the bonds deposited.
- Through the influence of a dear friend who was in a banking establishment, and to whom she had confided her secret, she was enabled to get the bonds at their face value.
Idiom(s)
take sth at face value