"worth it" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2003, Council of Europe, Learning and Teaching in the Communication Society, page 131",
          "text": "Using the Internet as an information resource is hardly worth it just to make student reports richer. It is worth it if the Internet is going to be used as a laboratory for choosing, exploring, searching, justifying and supporting views, etc.",
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      "glosses": [
        "Worth doing; worth the time, effort, etc."
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        [
          "time",
          "time"
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        [
          "effort",
          "effort"
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      "related": [
        {
          "word": "not worth the candle"
        }
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "worthwhile"
        }
      ],
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        "not-comparable"
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      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "zhídé",
          "sense": "worth doing",
          "word": "值得"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "huásuàn",
          "sense": "worth doing",
          "word": "划算"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "huádelái",
          "sense": "worth doing",
          "word": "划得來"
        },
        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "worth doing",
          "word": "de moeite waard zijn"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "note": "sen arvoinen (partitive when used predicatively)",
          "sense": "worth doing"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "worth doing",
          "word": "valoir la peine"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "worth doing",
          "word": "lohnend"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "worth doing",
          "word": "erstrebenswert"
        },
        {
          "alt": "かちがある",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "kachi ga aru",
          "sense": "worth doing",
          "word": "価値がある"
        }
      ]
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      "tags": [
        "Mid-Atlantic"
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      "text": "Audio (Mid-Atlantic)"
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  ],
  "word": "worth it"
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      "expansion": "worth it (not comparable)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "not worth the candle"
    }
  ],
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      "examples": [
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          "ref": "2003, Council of Europe, Learning and Teaching in the Communication Society, page 131",
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          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Worth doing; worth the time, effort, etc."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "time",
          "time"
        ],
        [
          "effort",
          "effort"
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        "not-comparable"
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "worthwhile"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "zhídé",
      "sense": "worth doing",
      "word": "值得"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "huásuàn",
      "sense": "worth doing",
      "word": "划算"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "huádelái",
      "sense": "worth doing",
      "word": "划得來"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "worth doing",
      "word": "de moeite waard zijn"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "note": "sen arvoinen (partitive when used predicatively)",
      "sense": "worth doing"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "worth doing",
      "word": "valoir la peine"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "worth doing",
      "word": "lohnend"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "worth doing",
      "word": "erstrebenswert"
    },
    {
      "alt": "かちがある",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "kachi ga aru",
      "sense": "worth doing",
      "word": "価値がある"
    }
  ],
  "word": "worth it"
}