English Explanatory Dictionary

second-gear valuation

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The assignment of a property to a tax band by an estate agent who evaluates the property while driving past it.

Word forms

second-gear valuation second-gear valuations

Etymology

From the notion that the agent not only is doing a drive-by evaluation but also is not even necessarily doing it slowly: second gear rather than first gear (low gear).

Related words

cursory
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