worth one's while

English

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Adjective

worth one's while

1. (idiomatic) Good and important enough for one to spend time, effort, or money on.

   Doing volunteer work to help others is truly worth one's while.

   • 1992, Robert Gibbons, A Primer in Game Theory, Prentice-Hall, page 110:

     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 $w^{*}$.

Related terms

• worthwhile

Translations

important enough to spend time, effort or money on

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 值得 (zh) (zhídé), 划算 (zh) (huásuàn), 划得來 (zh) (huádelái)

• Danish: umagen værd
• Dutch: de moeite waard
• Finnish: vaivan arvoinen
• French: valoir la peine (verb)
• Italian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: opłacalny (pl)
• Russian: сто́ящий (ru) (stójaščij), сто́ить того́ (stóitʹ tovó)
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can