Price
[praɪs]
Definition
(noun.) the high value or worth of something; 'her price is far above rubies'.
(noun.) value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something; 'the cost in human life was enormous'; 'the price of success is hard work'; 'what price glory?'.
(noun.) a monetary reward for helping to catch a criminal; 'the cattle thief has a price on his head'.
(noun.) United States operatic soprano (born 1927).
(noun.) the amount of money needed to purchase something; 'the price of gasoline'; 'he got his new car on excellent terms'; 'how much is the damage?'.
(noun.) cost of bribing someone; 'they say that every politician has a price'.
(verb.) ascertain or learn the price of; 'Have you priced personal computers lately?'.
(verb.) determine the price of; 'The grocer priced his wares high'.
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Definition
(n. & v.) The sum or amount of money at which a thing is valued, or the value which a seller sets on his goods in market; that for which something is bought or sold, or offered for sale; equivalent in money or other means of exchange; current value or rate paid or demanded in market or in barter; cost.
(n. & v.) Value; estimation; excellence; worth.
(n. & v.) Reward; recompense; as, the price of industry.
(v. t.) To pay the price of.
(v. t.) To set a price on; to value. See Prize.
(v. t.) To ask the price of; as, to price eggs.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Value (in money), charge, expense, cost.[2]. Estimation, worth.[3]. Recompense, reward.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Cost, figure, charge, expense, compensation, value, appraisement, worth
ANT:Donation, discount, allowance, remittance, abatement
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Definition
n. that at which anything is prized valued or bought: excellence: recompense.—v.t. to set value on: (coll.) to ask the price of: (Spens.) to pay the price of.—ns. Price′-curr′ent -list a list of the prices paid for any class of goods &c.—adjs. Priced set at a value; Price′less beyond price: invaluable: without value: worthless.—n. Price′lessness.—Price of money the rate of discount in lending or borrowing capital.—Without price priceless.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. Value plus a reasonable sum for the wear and tear of conscience in demanding it.
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Examples
- Sixteen shillings sterling, we are told by Mr Byron, was the price of a good horse in the capital of Chili. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- There is _one_ person in company who does not like to have Miss Price spoken of. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- He considers what the land will cost him, in tax and price together. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- To encourage tillage, by keeping up the price of corn, even in the most plentiful years, was the avowed end of the institution. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Whether from awe or pity, nobody raised the price on him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- In the physical as in the financial world, nothing is to be had without a price. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- As he might get an excellent smoke for half the price, he has no need to practise economy. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Mr. Bucket prices that decoration in his mind and thinks it as likely as not that Volumnia is writing poetry. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- At this juncture a large part of the correspondence referred very naturally to electric lighting, embodying requests for all kinds of information, catalogues, prices, terms, etc. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Meyers won on nearly every race but disliked to give tips because it brought down the prices. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The prices allowed by the board are very small, Mr. Bumble. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- How this came about may be easily seen without much arithmetic or knowledge of prices. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- We together fixed the prices to be paid for the negro labor, whether rendered to the government or to individuals. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Men made sly and crude schemes to corner it, to hoard it, to send up prices by releasing hoarded metals. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Stoves of this character are as efficient and economical as coal stoves, and are in great demand, especially where coal and wood are scarce and high-priced. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The Arabs are too high-priced in Egypt. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- For family or grocers’ use this will prove even more serviceable than some of the high-priced patent refrigerators. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
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