worth one's while

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Adjective

worth one's while

(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 $w^{*}$ .

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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: valant la peine
Italian: please add this translation if you can
Russian: сто́ящий (ru) (stójaščij), сто́ить того́ (stóitʹ tovó)
Spanish: please add this translation if you can

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