nominal value

Example Sentences

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Deflation meant that a stock that retained its nominal value was actually rising in value.

From Barron's • Apr. 19, 2026

The risk of a conversion into equity has pushed the price of MPS' junior bonds close to half of their nominal value.

From Reuters • Oct. 7, 2022

Each one-year bond has a nominal value of 1,000 Ukrainian hryvnia and offered an 11% interest rate.

From BBC • Mar. 4, 2022

The ruling probably means that the Tribunal has lost its nominal value.

From New York Times • Jul. 12, 2016

At school he had scraped into the Sixth by a hair's-breadth; at the University he had secured a degree of purely nominal value.

From A Safety Match by Hay, Ian