Price Definition
prīs
priced, prices, pricing
noun
prices
The amount of money, etc. asked or paid for something; cost; charge.
Webster's New World
The cost at which something is obtained.
Believes that the price of success is hard work.
American Heritage
The cost of bribing someone.
Maintained that every person has a price.
American Heritage
Value or worth.
Webster's New World
A reward for the capture or death of a person.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
- anyhow
- expense no object
- whatever the cost
- priceless
- without price
- inestimable
- invaluable
- ceiling
- price ceiling
- money-s-worth
- requital
- par value
- guerdon
- prize
- pay
verb
priced, prices, pricing
To put a price on; fix the price of.
Webster's New World
To ask or find out the price of.
Webster's New World
pronoun
A Welsh patronymic surname, anglicized from ap Rhys.
Wiktionary
A city in Utah.
Wiktionary
A town in Wisconsin.
Wiktionary
abbreviation
idiom
price out of the market
- To eliminate the demand for (goods or services) by setting prices too high.
American Heritage
at any price
- no matter what the cost
Webster's New World
beyond price
- priceless; invaluable
Webster's New World
price out of the market
- to force (oneself or one's product) out of competition by charging prices that are too high
- to exclude in effect (a potential buyer) by charging prices that he or she cannot afford
Webster's New World
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Price
- price out of the market
- at any price
- beyond price
- price out of the market
Origin of Price
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Middle English pris from Old French from Latin pretium per-5 in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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