Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To value or estimate incorrectly, especially to undervalue.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To value falsely or too little; misesteem: underrate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To value wrongly or too little; to undervalue.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
value wrongly : tomisjudge the value of.
Etymologies
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Examples
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(Also, the IRS insists that stock compensation be valued at true market price for employment tax and income tax purposes -- so if someone does arrange to systematically misvalue stock compensation they may have some questions to answer to the government.)
Executive Compensation, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Also, recall that “efficiency” is in the eye of the beholder, and someone who wants to breach has a powerful incentive to misvalue the costs borne by the promisee.
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On this day it would not have been possible for any part of the mind whatsoever to misvalue the remaining treasure of silver coin.
Merton of the Movies Harry Leon Wilson 1903
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