basic value

collocation in English

meaningsofbasicandvalue

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basic
adjective
uk
/ˈbeɪ.sɪk/us
/ˈbeɪ.sɪk/
simple and not complicated, so able to provide the base or starting point from which something ...
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value
noun
uk
/ˈvæl.juː/us
/ˈvæl.juː/
the amount of money that can be received ...
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(Definition ofbasicandvaluefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofbasic value

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Their talk is meaningless if the unit of pleasure itself is the solebasicvalue.
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Our society - more than any other - is remarkable in the diversity of ways it honorsbasicvaluejudgments, whether individual, communal, political, or religious.
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What if the patient's (or family's) "basicvaluejudgment" is to live indefinitely in an unconscious state?
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Production at the frontier is for own consumption and as such, the output of grain has abasicvalueindependent of market prices.
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For present purposes, however, the important point is thebasicvaluethat underlies this approach.
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There is no otherbasicvaluewith which the single pleasures can interact to yield a whole value that deviates from the sum of the individual pleasures.
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However, as soon as we understand why it is so, the concept of happiness becomes dubious if it is understood as thebasicvalueof our welfare policies.
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Further t-tests against thebasicvalueof 0.5 showed no significant departure of the data from this chance level of any age group from either dialect.
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I think that it is to be preferred to a levy on profits because it will reflect more realistically thebasicvalueof the contract.
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My constituents want to know what has happened to thebasicvalueof parental guidance and responsibility.
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I would add that thebasicvalueof development cooperation in relation to the issue of conflicts is the preventive effect.
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Ewes with two, three, or four more years of breeding life ahead of them are worth proportionately more than thebasicvalue.
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Parental responsibility is such abasicvalue, but it is sadly lacking in many parents.
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Surely that is abasicvaluethat we should not abandon lightly.
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Their main and prime grievance is thebasicvaluethat we as a country place on a man's disability.
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However, it is part of the purpose of the debate to re-establish and reiterate thebasicvalueof marriage in all sorts of ways.
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We want these freedoms to be a right; we want these freedoms to be abasicvalueand to be treated as such.
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Together with our attachment to the institutions of parliamentary democracy, it runs like a golden thread linking successive generations and giving a common purpose andbasicvalueto them all.
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Owing to that unequal development more and more capital is being put into the aircraft industry and the wireless industry, which are not really ofbasicvalueto the country.
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Let us create a world which gives rewards, not for making a quick, short-term profit and immoderation, but for proper work, and which regards social responsibility as abasicvalue.
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