fair market value

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Recent Examples of fair market value The Fox Lake Fire Protection District has a proposal on the ballot to increase the tax rate for firefighters’ pensions, which would amount to $20 a year for a single-family home having a fair market value of $100,000. — Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 23 Sep. 2026 Those deals, which are separate from 32 Equity, are shared through the cap via non-cash accounting, priced at fair market value on the date of vesting and amortized over 10 years. — Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 10 Sep. 2026 Because alternative minimum tax exposure is driven largely by the spread between exercise price and fair market value, lower prices can substantially reduce the tax cost of beginning the long-term holding period. — Anastasia Atamanchuk, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2026 After July 2034, based on the performance of the NFL assets, Disney may have the right to reacquire the NFL’s interest in ESPN in exchange for a 10-year security at 70% of the then-fair market value of the NFL’s interest in ESPN. — Todd Spangler, Variety, 21 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for fair market value
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  1. market value
  2. value
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  • This comes after shares of Alphabet sank by more than 12% Thursday, wiping half a trillion dollars off the market value of America’s fourth-largest company.
    — Lucy Bayly, CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2026
  • In Cook County, Illinois, which includes Chicago, homes are assessed at 10% of their market value.
    — Elizabeth Jane Beckett-Camarata, The Conversation, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of market value
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  • Its practical value will depend on whether the systems can consistently handle varied components, operate at useful production speeds, and work reliably within existing factory infrastructure.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 29 Oct. 2026
  • This translates into infinitely many families of identities, one for every value of a.
    — Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of value
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  • The candidates have clashed on the issue as consumers complained about the high costs.
    — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 28 Oct. 2026
  • Constant calls demanding others pay for every social cause regardless of cost has its limits.
    — Letters to the Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 Oct. 2026
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