Value added tax

Definition

value / 'vælju: / n ၁။ (က) [C,U] တန္ဖိုး။ a decline in the value of the dollar/ pound ❍ pay above/ below the market value for sth ❍ rising property values ❍ gain/ appreciate/ go up in value ❍ drop/ fall/ go down in value ❍ order software to the value of £700. (ခ) [U] တန္ဖိုး။ This tea is excellent value at 39p a packet. ❍ Charter flights give/ offer the best value for (your) money. ❍ This great value-for-money offer is only available to society members. ၂။ [U] တန္ဖိုး။ အာနိသင္။ the value of regular exercise ❍ be of great/ little/ some/ no value to sb ❍ have a high energy/ nutritional value ❍ The story has very little news value. ၃။ values [pl] တန္ဖိုးထားမႈ။ တန္ဖိုး။ စံ။ cultural/ family/ social values ❍ preserve traditional values ❍ Young people have a different set of values from their parents. ၄။ [C] ( mathematics ) တန္ဖိုး။ Find the value of x. See also FACE VALUE, MARKET VALUE, STREET VALUE v ၁။ ~ sth (at sth) တန္ဖိုးျဖတ္သည္။ He valued the house for me at $80 000. ၂။ ~ sth/sb (as sth) တန္ဖိုး ထားသည္။ value sb's advice ❍ value truth above all else ❍ a valued contribution/ possession ❍ a valued client/ customer ❍ I value her as a friend. ❏ value added tax n [U] ( abbr VAT ) ကုန္ပစၥည္း၏ဝန္ေဆာင္မႈအေပၚစည္းၾကပ္သည့္အခြန္။ ❏ value judgement n ( derog ) ပုဂၢိဳလ္စြဲျဖင့္ အကဲျဖတ္ျခင္း။ make value judgements. ❏ valueless adj အဖိုးမတန္ေသာ။ အသံုးမက်ေသာ။ ❍ INVALUABLE ❏ valuer n ရာျပတ္။

Examples

1. You can’t put a value on a human life.
2. [value of] : The value of the painting is not known.
3. [drop/rise/fall etc in value] : The dollar dropped in value on the foreign exchange markets last week.
4. Residential property in the city has doubled in value in the last three years.
5. [of (great/real) value] : Thieves had taken a radio and a Walkman
6. but nothing of great value.
7. [of little/no value] : The ring was actually of very little value.
8. [hold its/their value] : Handwoven rugs hold their value extremely well.
9. Thanks to the strength of the pound
10. these wines offer tremendous value just now.
11. [value for (your) money] : Most customers are looking for value for their money rather than cutting-edge fashion.
12. Educational/nutritional value
13. [value to] : Discussion of the transport link focused on its value to the local community.
14. [of (great) value] : Documents that will be of great value to future historians
15. [sentimental value] : That watch had belonged to his grandfather and had great sentimental value.
16. [of little/no value] : These papers are of no value to a thief.
17. [shock/novelty/curiosity value] : Some episodes are included purely for their shock value.
18. Christian/Western/Islamic values
19. To its opponents in the developing world
20. globalization is seen as an attack on traditional cultural values.
21. The university’s liberal values
22. [set of values] : They have a very different set of values from our own.