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face value

  1. the value printed or stamped on a bill, bond, coin, etc.
  2. the amount of the death benefits of a life insurance policy
  3. the seeming value to take a promise at face value

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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