value for money

English

Noun

value for money (uncountable)

1. A reasonable amount and quality of goods or services for the amount of money one spends.

   The new car was good value for money.

   Her customers always get good value for money.

   • 2019 October, Tony Miles, Philip Sherratt, “EMR kicks off new era”, in Modern Railways, page 53:

     'With a better value for money offer for our customers we may be able to look at what we do with fares going forward.'

   • 2024 October 2, Philip Haigh, “Different types of passengers require different types of fare”, in RAIL, number 1019, page 54:

     How can an operator be, at the same time, top for overall satisfaction and bottom for value for money? I turned to Anthony Smith for the answer, leaning on his 20 years running Transport Focus and its predecessors.
     It's commuters, he explained. "You can't please commuters, you can only not displease them."

Synonyms

• good value
• VFM (initialism)

Related terms

• money's worth

 

Translations

amount and quality

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 划算 (zh) (huásuàn) (adj.), 實惠／实惠 (zh) (shíhuì) (adj.), 經濟／经济 (zh) (jīngjì) (adj.)

• Finnish: vastike rahalle
• French: rapport qualité-prix (fr) m
• German: Preis-Leistungs-Verhältnis (de)
• Hungarian: ár-érték arány (hu)
• Polish: stosunek jakości do ceny m
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can

See also

• you get what you pay for

 

References

• “value for money”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.