PRICE Definition & Meaning | 亚洲网紅露点

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noun

the sum or amount of money or its equivalent for which anything is bought, sold, or offered for sale.
a sum offered for the capture of a person alive or dead:
The authorities put a price on his head.
the sum of money, or other consideration, for which a person's support, consent, etc., may be obtained, especially in cases involving sacrifice of integrity:
They claimed that every politician has a price.
that which must be given, done, or undergone in order to obtain a thing:
He gained the victory, but at a heavy price.
odds ( def 2 ).
Archaic. value or worth.
Archaic. great value or worth (usually preceded by of ).

verb (used with object)

priced, pricing.

to fix the price of.
to ask or determine the price of:
We spent the day pricing furniture at various stores.

Price

[ prahys ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

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price

/ 辫谤补瑟蝉 /

noun

the sum in money or goods for which anything is or may be bought or sold
the cost at which anything is obtained
the cost of bribing a person
a sum of money offered or given as a reward for a capture or killing
value or worth, esp high worth
gambling another word for odds
at any price
whatever the price or cost
at a price
at a high price
beyond price or without price
invaluable or priceless
the price of someone
what someone deserves, esp a fitting punishment
it's just the price of him
what price something?
what are the chances of something happening now?

verb

to fix or establish the price of
to ascertain or discover the price of
price out of the market
to charge so highly for as to prevent the sale, hire, etc, of

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Derived Forms

藞辫谤颈肠别谤, noun

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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

辫谤颈肠别顎僡路产濒别 adjective
辫谤别路辫谤颈肠别顎� verb (used with object) prepriced prepricing noun
谤别路辫谤颈肠别顎� verb repriced repricing
飞别濒濒顎�-辫谤颈肠别诲顎� adjective

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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of price¹

First recorded in 1175鈥�1225; (noun) Middle English pris(e), from Old French, Latin pretium 鈥減rice, value, worth鈥� ( precious ); (verb) late Middle English prisen, from Middle French prisier, derivative of pris, Old French as above; prize ², praise

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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of price¹

C13 pris, from Old French, from Latin pretium price, value, wage

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Idioms and Phrases

Idioms

at any price, at any cost, no matter how great:
Their orders were to capture the town at any price.
beyond / without price, of incalculable value; priceless:
The crown jewels are beyond price.

More idioms and phrases containing price

at all costs (at any price)
cheap at twice the price
every man has his price

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Synonym Study

Price, charge, cost, expense refer to outlay or expenditure required in buying or maintaining something. Price is used mainly of single, concrete objects offered for sale; charge, of services: What is the price of that coat? There is a small charge for mailing packages. Cost is mainly a purely objective term, often used in financial calculations: The cost of building a new annex was estimated at $10,000. Expense suggests cost plus incidental expenditure: The expense of the journey was more than the contemplated cost. Only charge is not used figuratively. Price, cost, and sometimes expense may be used to refer to the expenditure of mental energy, what one 鈥減ays鈥� in anxiety, suffering, etc.

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At the same time, staff shortages, which persist despite efforts to recruit from overseas, create a scarcity that only drives up prices further.

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Despite economists' concerns about higher prices, Ben believes the businesses he delivers to will benefit in the long run.

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We had cut out a lot of its ability to manage that complexity by forcing it to only care about prices, quantities and returns on investments.

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But, having realised his ambition, he fears the next generation of working class kids are being priced out of Scottish culture.

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The company moved to overseas vendors about a decade ago as U.S. prices rose and factories closed.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023

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