good value

plural good values

1. Something that is well worth the money paid for it.

   it's not cheap, it's good value

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   It is no matter how high-priced a sheep is, just so he is a good value.

   1910, Iowa Department of Agriculture, The Iowa Year Book of Agriculture, volume 10, page 475

   Moreover, today we meet Bridie in theatre far too seldom : he is a better value, and more likely to live in record, than the modish mayflies of our stage.

   1960, The Illustrated London News, volume 237, number 1, page 202

   She is a good value at £594 in standard form, but a suitable 40 hp engine and a trailer would raise the total price to well over £1000 (Microplas Ltd., Homewood Road, Mitcham, Surrey).

   1973, The Autocar, volume 138, page 11

   1983, The Month, Issues 1384-1395, page 66, Audiences fill theatres where his work is staged. He is a good value. He never fails, which is not to say he always succeeds.

   The announcement of the Railways Bill on November 5 included comments that rolling stock owning companies (ROSCOs) must provide good value for money.

   2025 November 26, David Stubbings, “News: Rolling stock strategy 'will give clarity'”, in RAIL, number 1049, page 6

   Synonyms: value for money

2. AustraliaUKidiomaticslangSomeone who is friendly and easy-going.

   He is a good value—earnest, sympathetic, solid to the bone and not overcomplicated—just the way you′d hope your undertaker would be.

   2007, Richard Ford, The Lay of the Land, page 95

3. AustraliaUKidiomaticslangSomeone who is funny or witty.

   Friday, 17 July 1981 Yesterday: morning with Germaine Greer – she is a good value, stimulating company and completely ridiculous: for the original feminist she is hilariously man-mad.

   2010, Gyles Brandreth, Something Sensational to Read in the Train: The Diary of a Lifetime, unnumbered page

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   ‘Not anymore,’ she said, quickly ‘But he′s worth his weight in gold at a party. He always has something to say, and most of the time it′s interesting. That reflects well on me for inviting him.’ ‘He is a good value.’

   2003, David Philip Reiter, Interactive Publications, Liars and Lovers, page 79

   Hugh Grant is always good value, and Martin Freeman and Joanna Page do very well as a couple who fall in love while working as stand-ins for what is apparently an expensively produced hardcore porn film.

   2003 November 21, Peter Bradshaw, “Love Actually”, in The Guardian