face value

Noun

Meaning

the value of a security that is set by the company issuing it; unrelated to market value

the apparent worth as opposed to the real worth

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face-value

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Examples

Early Chinese thinkers had taken variety at face value. They had favored diversification and collected anomalies instead of trying to explain them away. Paul Karl Feyerabend

Smile, it increases you face value. Dolly Parton

I've learned that I need to spell out, even in cases seemingly so blatant, that in fact I am not taking this at face value and am being 'sarcastic. James Fallows

There are people who think that we should never reveal anything, never show puppeteers and all of that. It tends to be something that parents worry about more than kids, because kids work just at face value. Jim Henson

We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that. Laura Dern

It was truly a lesson in don't take something at face value. You know, so many of us do in life. Whether it's because of how somebody looks or because of what they're wearing or what have you, you kind of assess a person in the first five minutes before they even speak. Shemar Moore

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