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for all one is worth Definition


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worth
noun
    1. Value, importance or usefulness.
      Thesaurus: value, quality, goodness, excellence, merit.
    2. Financial value.
    3. The quantity of anything that can be bought for a certain sum, accomplished in a certain time, etc.
adj
    1. Having a value of a specified amount.
      Thesaurus: equivalent to, rated.
    2. colloq
      Having money and property to a specified value.
    3. Justifying, deserving, meriting, repaying or warranting something.
      Example: worth consideration
Idiom: for all one is worth
    With all one's might.
      Thesaurus: vigorously, powerfully, mightily, hard, greatly.
Idiom: for all it's etc worth
    To the utmost.
Idiom: for what it's etc worth
    Worthless though it etc may be.
      Example: You have my support, for what it's worth
Idiom: worth it
    Worthwhile.
Etymology: Anglo-Saxon weorth.



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