Noun

(en noun)

The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable.

* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 13, author=Alistair Magowan, work=BBC Sport

, title= Sunderland 0-1 Man Utd , passage=United were value for their win and Rooney could have had a hat-trick before half-time, with Paul Scholes also striking the post in the second half.}}

The degree of importance given to something.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Gary Younge)

, volume=188, issue=26, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution , passage=WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, […]. They also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies.}}

The amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else.

* M'Culloch

An article may be possessed of the highest degree of utility, or power to minister to our wants and enjoyments, and may be universally made use of, without possessing exchangeable value .

* Dryden

His design was not to pay him the value of his pictures, because they were above any price.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Boundary problems , passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}

(music) The relative duration of a musical note.

(arts) The relative darkness or lightness of a color in (a specific area of) a painting etc.

* Joe Hing Lowe

I establish the colors and principal values by organizing the painting into three values--dark, mediumand light.

Numerical quantity measured or assigned or computed.

Precise meaning; import.

the value''' of a word; the '''value of a legal instrument

(Mitford)

(obsolete) Esteem; regard.

(Dryden)

* Bishop Burnet

My relation to the person was so near, and my value for him so great.

(obsolete) valour; also spelled valew

(Spenser)

Noun

(en noun) (wikipedia premier)

(politics, UK, Westminster system) The leader of the government in parliament and leader of the cabinet.

# (politics, UK parliament) The prime minister.

#* 1871 July 29, “Our Tyrant”'', '' , Volume 303, Issues 9308-9315, page 910,

Mr. Gladstone had literally no option. Not to coerce the Lords was to coerce the Commons to continue purchase in spite of their repeated votes for its abolition, and this the Premier had as little the power as the will to do.

# (politics, Australia, Canada, South Africa) The government leader in parliament and leader of cabinet in a state or provincial parliamentary system.

#* 1974 , Irving M. Abella, On Strike; Six Key Labour Struggles in Canada, 1919-1949 , page 96,

More surprising than the company?s activities and interests were those of the premier of Ontario, Mitchell Hepburn.

#* 1986 , R. Kenneth Carty, National Politics and Community in Canada , page 116,

The major concern of most of the premiers who attended the 1887 conference was, as Macdonald well understood, to put pressure upoon Ottawa to amend the B.N.A. Act to increase the subsidies paid to the provinces by tying them to current population levels rather than those of 1860.

#* 2007 , Patrick Moray Weller, Cabinet Government in Australia, 1901-2006: Practice, Principles, Performance , page 1,

John Forrest had dominated the fledgling state of Western Australia, serving as premier for the previous decade.

#* 2009 , Andrew Stewart, John Spoehr (editor), Chapter 16: Industrial Relations'', ''State of South Australia: From Crisis to Prosperity? , page 302,

In 1890 it was South Australian Premier Charles Cameron Kingston who first proposed a system of compulsory conciliation and arbitration to deal with industrial unrest.

#* 2011 , Jennifer Curtin, Marian Sawer, 4: Oceania, Gretchen Bauer, Manon Tremblay (editors), ''Women in Executive Power: A Global Overview , page 56,

In 2009 Kristina Keneally became Labor premier in NSW in similar circumstances to her predecessors in Western Australia and Victoria - a Labor government that was in deep trouble because of mismanagement and corruption scandals.

(politics, non-Westminster) The government leader in a legislative congress or leader of a government-level administrative body; the head of government.

* 1983 , Guo Zhou, China & the World , Volume 4, Beijing Review, page 13,

This shows that our policy of strengthening friendly ties with Africa as developed by Chairman Mao Zedong and Premier Zhou Enlai is a correct one and that it has won popular support in Africa.

* 1998 , , Volume 16, page 61,

Actual decision-making power in China resides in the state?s executive organs and in the CCP. At the national level the top government executive organ is the State Council, which is led by the premier .

* 2008 , Steffen W. Schmidt, Mack C. Shelley, Barbara A. Bardes, American Government & Politics Today , page 470,

So, in the case of Russia and some other states, the head of state is the president (who is elected) and who then can name the premier' and the cabinet ministers. The intent of this system is for the president to be popularly elected and to exercise political leadership, while the ' premier runs the everyday operations of government and leads the legislative power.

(nautical, slang) The first lieutenant or other second-in-command officer of a ship.