Definition of "worth"

Two years after their first European trophy, Atlético were well worth their second.

2012 May 9, Jonathan Wilson, “Europa League: Radamel Falcao's Atlético Madrid rout Athletic Bilbao”, in the Guardian‎

The December 11 Telegraph story, which accused the Treasury of blocking plans for £30 billion worth of electrification across the rail network [...], has rung alarm bells over who is the real source of power concerning rail's development - the Department of Transport or the Treasury?

2022 January 12, Tom Allett, “MPs concerned at Treasury's influence on rail industry”, in RAIL, number 948, page 13

Manchester United's Tom Cleverley impressed on his first competitive start and Lampard demonstrated his continued worth at international level in a performance that was little more than a stroll once England swiftly exerted their obvious authority.

2012 September 7, Phil McNulty, “Moldova 0-5 England”, in BBC Sport‎

A drug dealer and money launderer who was using cryptocurrency to conceal his funds has had over £1.2 million worth of Bitcoins seized, restrained and then converted into British pounds in the first case of its kind.

2018 July 19, “More than £1.2 million of Bitcoin seized from drug dealer”, in cps.gov.uk‎, London: Crown Prosecution Service, retrieved 2018-07-20

Although most modern OTDR equipment can store at least eight days' worth of data (in line with current industry standards), when it was downloaded from the Class 57s involved, it was discovered they had stored just over eight hours' worth of data.

2020 November 18, “Network News: Lack of safety compliance a factor in Loughborough SPAD”, in Rail, page 25

VVhat bee they men of any worth or no? […] No my good Lord, they bee men of no great account,For they bee none but Tylers, Thatchers, Millers, and ſuch like.

1593, anonymous author, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], Act I

Sonne of man, prophecie and say, Thus saith the Lord God, Howle ye, woe worth the day.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Ezekiel 30:2

For, adds our erudite Friend, the Saxon weorthan equivalent to the German werden, means to grow, to become; traces of which old vocable are still found in the North-country dialects, as, ‘What is word of him?’ meaning ‘What is become of him?’ and the like. Nay we in modern English still say, ‘Woe worth the hour.’ [i.e. Woe befall the hour]

1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. 3, Landlord Edmund”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, book II (The Ancient Monk)