second-gear valuation

noun

The assignment of a property to a tax band by an estate agent who evaluates the property while driving past it.

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Meanings

nounsecond-gear valuation (plural second-gear valuations)

plural second-gear valuations

  1. UKinformalThe assignment of a property to a tax band by an estate agent who evaluates the property while driving past it.

Origin

From the notion that the agent not only is doing a drive-by evaluation but also is not even necessarily doing it slowly: second gear rather than first gear (low gear).

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APA

second-gear valuation. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/second-gear%20valuation

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“second-gear valuation.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/second-gear%20valuation. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “second-gear valuation,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/second-gear%20valuation.

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