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worth one's while

worth one's while adjective: beneficial and important enough on which to spend time, effort, or money.

Adjective

worth one's while (comparative more worth one's while, superlative most worth one's while)

  1. (idiomatic) Beneficial and important enough on which to spend time, effort, or money.
    • Doing volunteer work to help others is truly worth one's while.
    • Even if (2.3.5) holds, so that the worker's strategy is a best response to the firm's strategy, it must also be worth the firm's while to pay w#42;.1992, Robert Gibbons, A Primer in Game Theory, Prentice-Hall, page 110

Forms of worth one's while

comparativemore worth one's while
superlativemost worth one's while

Questions about worth one's while

What does worth one's while mean?
Worth one's while means beneficial and important enough on which to spend time, effort, or money.
What part of speech is worth one's while?
Worth one's while is an adjective.

Words near worth one's while in the dictionary

  1. worth it
  2. Worth Matravers
  3. worth one's salt
  4. worth one's weight in gold
  5. worth one's weight in salt
  6. worth one's while
  7. Worth syndrome
  8. worth the whistle
  9. worth while
  10. Wortham
  11. Worthams

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