valuables

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Translations

أشياء ثَمينَهنَفَائِس

cennosti

værdigenstandværdisager

Wertgegenstände Wertsache

τιμαλφή

objetos de valor

arvotavarat

objets de valeur

vrijednosti

értéktárgyak

dÿrgripir

i valori oggetti di valore preziosi valori

貴重品

귀중품

kostbaarheden

verdigjenstander verdisaker

kosztowności

objetos de valor

ценные вещи

cennosti

dragocenosti

värdesaker

ของมีค่า

değerli eşyalar

đồ quý giá

贵重物品

valuables

[ˈvæljuəb^əlz] npl → objets mpl de valeur
Don't take any valuables with you → N'emportez pas d'objets de valeur.

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

valuables

[ˈvæljʊəblz] npl → preziosi mpl, oggetti mpl di valore

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

value

(ˈvӕljuː) noun

1. worth, importance or usefulness. His special knowledge was of great value during the war; She sets little value on wealth.

2. price. What is the value of that stamp?

3. purchasing power. Are those coins of any value?

4. fairness of exchange (for one's money etc). You get good value for money at this supermarket!

5. the length of a musical note.

verb

1. to suggest a suitable price for. This painting has been valued at $50,000.

2. to regard as good or important. He values your advice very highly.

ˈvaluable adjective

having high value. a valuable painting.

ˈvaluables noun plural

things of special value. She keeps her jewellery and other valuables in a locked drawer.

ˈvalued adjective

regarded as valuable or precious. What is your most valued possession?

ˈvalueless adjective

having no value; worthless. The necklace is completely valueless.

ˈvalues noun plural

standards or principles. People have very different moral values.

value-ˈadded tax noun

(abbreviation VAT) a tax that is imposed on goods and services.

valuables

→ نَفَائِس cennosti værdigenstand Wertgegenstände τιμαλφή objetos de valor arvotavarat objets de valeur vrijednosti oggetti di valore 貴重品 귀중품 kostbaarheden verdisaker kosztowności objetos de valor ценные вещи värdesaker ของมีค่า değerli eşyalar đồ quý giá 贵重物品

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"Which would Mademoiselle choose if she had her will?" asked Esther, wo always sat near to watch over and lock up the valuables.

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This seemed to Tarzan a splendid plan for safeguarding valuables. Since Werper had evinced a desire to possess his glittering pebbles, Tarzan, with the suspicions of a savage, had guarded the baubles, of whose worth he was entirely ignorant, as zealously as though they spelled life or death to him.

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The count had valuable Gobelin tapestries and Persian carpets in the house.

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If these remarks have any foundation, that state of things which will best enable us to improve and extend so valuable a resource must be best adapted to our political welfare.

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Such a valuable quality made Mazarin think of replacing Joubert, his intendant, who had recently died, by M.

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So the Carter helped himself to so many of the most valuable goods that the horses easily ran away with the remainder.

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"Here," resumed Harriet, turning to her box again, "here is something still more valuable, I mean that has been more valuable, because this is what did really once belong to him, which the courtplaister never did."

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The most valuable feature of the lecture was the disclosure of the methods of the Hindu jugglers in their famous performances, familiar in the mouths of travelers.

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(sold for less) is especially valuable for its illustrations.

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Thus property is as an instrument to living; an estate is a multitude of instruments; so a slave is an animated instrument, but every one that can minister of himself is more valuable than any other instrument; for if every instrument, at command, or from a preconception of its master's will, could accomplish its work (as the story goes of the statues of Daedalus; or what the poet tells us of the tripods of Vulcan, "that they moved of their own accord into the assembly of the gods "), the shuttle would then weave, and the lyre play of itself; nor would the architect want servants, or the [1254a] master slaves.

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It is only a few of the scions of our noblest and wealthiest houses, who are able to give the time and money necessary for the thorough prosecution of this noble and valuable Art.

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Bennet.'-- My mind, however, is now made up on the subject, for having received ordination at Easter, I have been so fortunate as to be distinguished by the patronage of the Right Honourable Lady Catherine de Bourgh, widow of Sir Lewis de Bourgh, whose bounty and beneficence has preferred me to the valuable rectory of this parish, where it shall be my earnest endeavour to demean myself with grateful respect towards her Ladyship, and be ever ready to perform those rites and ceremonies which are instituted by the Church of England.