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pricen. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French price, pris. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman price, priese, pris, prise and Old French, Middle French pris, French prix sum of money for which anything is bought or sold (mid 11th cent. in Anglo-Norman denoting payment for a boat passage; second half of the 12th cent. denoting the commercial value of an object), reputation, renown, esteem (first half of the 12th cent.), honour (first half of the 12th cent. in Anglo-Norman), value, worth, importance (first half of the 12th cent. in Anglo-Norman), prize, reward given to the winner of a competition (second half of the 12th cent.; 1690 denoting a prize given to an excellent student), superiority (second half of the 12th cent. in aveir le pris de to have the upper hand of, be victorious over), wages (second half of the 15th cent.), sum of money offered as a reward for the capture, arrest, or killing of a person (1671), in Anglo-Norman also elite (late 12th cent. or earlier) < classical Latin pretium (in post-classical Latin also precium , from 6th cent.) money for which anything is bought or sold, price, cost, pay, fee, compensation, reward, recompense, prize, penalty, advantage, ransom, bribe, value, worth, rank, esteem, precious possession, expensive article; further etymology disputed: commonly held to derive < the Indo-European base of Sanskrit prati toward, against, ancient Greek προτί to, toward, Old Church Slavonic protivŭ against, Latvian pret against, pretī opposite, but perhaps rather related to the second element of classical Latin interpres agent, spokesman, interpreter (see interpret v.). In branches I. and III. now superseded by praise n. and prize n.1 respectively (see discussion at these entries). Compare praise n., pres n.1, prize n.1Compare Old Occitan pretz value, honour, worth, esteem (early 12th cent. or earlier, frequently in the Troubadours; Occitan prètz value, price), Catalan preu price (1252), honour, worth (late 13th cent.; now obsolete), Spanish precio price (end of the 9th cent. or earlier in a Latin context, first half of the 12th cent. or earlier in a Spanish context), prize, reward, honour (all first half of the 13th cent. or earlier; now obsolete in these senses, superseded by premio premio n. and prez respectively), prez honour, worth, esteem (c1200; < Old Occitan), Portuguese preço price, value, worth, honour, esteem (13th cent.), Italian pregio value, worth, honour, esteem (end of the 12th cent.), prezzo price, (now archaic) honour, esteem (late 13th cent. or earlier). The French word was also borrowed into other Germanic languages, where it frequently shows a similarly broad semantic range; compare Middle Dutch, Dutch prijs , Middle Low German prīs , Middle High German prīs (German Preis ), and (probably via Middle Low German) Old Icelandic príss (Icelandic prís , †príss ), Old Swedish prīs (Swedish pris ), Old Danish priis (Danish pris ). With the phrases at sense 4 compare Old French avoir a pris (mid 13th cent.), Anglo-Norman aver en pris , Old French avoir en pris (beginning of the 13th cent. or earlier in Anglo-Norman), Middle French tenir en pris (late 14th cent. or earlier), Anglo-Norman and Old French tenir pris de (second half of the 12th cent.), Anglo-Norman and Old French mettre a pris (first half of the 12th cent.), Anglo-Norman and Old French mettre en pris (end of the 12th cent. or earlier in Anglo-Norman), Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French estre en pris (12th cent. or earlier). With the phrases at 5 compare Old French aveir le pris de to have the upper hand of, be victorious over (second half of the 12th cent.), Old French, Middle French porter le pris to win the prize (in a tournament) (second half of the 12th cent.; French remporter le prix de to have the upper hand of, be victorious over). With of price at Phrases 1 compare Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French de pris excellent, precious, worthy, renowned (first half of the 12th cent. in Old French), French de prix costly, expensive (1636). The α. forms (as also the γ. forms) reflect a voiceless pronunciation of the fricative, the β. forms probably a voiced pronunciation (compare also prize n.1); however, some English β forms may show the voiceless pronunciation, and in Older Scots there seems to be no evidence for a variant with voiced final consonant. See further E. J. Dobson Eng. Pronunc. 1500–1700 (ed. 2, 1968) II. §356. In the plural forms, voicing of the medial fricative, frequently orthographically indicated by the spellings prises, prizes, was common before 1700. Signification. †I. Praise, honour. Cf. praise n. 1. the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > [noun] c1225 Lofsong Lefdi (Royal) in R. Morris (1868) 1st Ser. 305 Prude ant wilnunge of pris. c1300 (Harl. 2277) (1845) l. 150 (MED) Ech man tolde of him pris that him miȝte iseo. c1330 (?a1300) (1886) l. 1340 Of ysonde þan spekeþ he, Her prise, Hou sche was gent and fre. a1393 J. Gower (Fairf.) vii. 3966 Touchende his name, Or be it pris or be it blame. a1425 (c1385) G. Chaucer (1987) ii. 1585 To preise a man, and up with pris hym reise A thousand fold yet heigher than the sonne. a1475 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville (Vitell.) 14922 Whan he herde the prys was more Off Davyd than off hym-sylff. c1500 (?a1437) (1939) clxxxviii Of quhom [sc. the gods], In laud and prise, With thankfull hert I say richt In this wise. 1567 in J. Cranstoun (1891) I. v. 3 Gif to that leuing Lord all pryse. 1594 W. Fowler Epitaphe Sir I. Seton in (1914) I. 6 To win in heauen, perpetuall praise and prise. the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > praiseworthiness > [adverb] a1400 W. Langland (Corpus Cambr.) (1873) C. xv. 194 (note) (MED) Iob was a paynym & plesede god a prys. the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > fame or renown > [noun] > honour or glory ?c1225 (?a1200) (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 54 Ha hunteð efter Pris & kechet lastunge. a1350 ( in R. H. Robbins (1959) 16 Muche haþ scotlond forlore..Ant lutel pris wonne. c1380 (1879) 467 Þoȝ y slowe þe her in fiȝt, what prys were þat for me? Men wolde sayn y were to blame. a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer (Hunterian) 1161 Gret loos hath Largesse and gret pris. c1475 tr. C. de Pisan (Cambr.) (1977) 115 (MED) A man ought for to labour to geete loos and pryce. c1500 (?a1437) (1939) cxxviii That wil be to the grete worschip and prise. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart I. cciv. 240 Certayne yonge knyghtes and squyers to get prise in armes..iusted one with another. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy i. xxxvii. 27 In this conflict the horse~men won greatest price and praise [L. gloria]. II. Value, worth; esteem. 3. the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > worth > [noun] ?c1225 (?a1200) (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 215 Abihalt hire [sc. the soul's] wurð þet he paiȝede for hire & dem þer efter hire pris. ?a1300 (Bodl.) (1916) 11 (MED) To fullen oure wombe hit is lutel pris, & seþþe ligge slepe such hit were a gris. c1384 (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Luke xii. 7 Ȝe ben of more priys [L. pluris estis vos] than many sparowis. a1400 (a1325) (Vesp.) 29040 Fast es..o gret pris. 1483 ( tr. G. Deguileville (Caxton) (1859) iv. ix. 62 The prys of myn Appel is of suche valewe. a1500 tr. Thomas à Kempis (Trin. Dublin) (1893) 48 (MED) Whan ihesu spekiþ not wiþ inne, þe comfort is but of litel price [L. vilis]. 1576 W. Lambarde 141 Ye place was at the first of litte price. 1611 Matt. xiii. 46 One pearle of great price [ Wyclif oo preciouse margarite; Tindale, Great, Rheims, one precious pearle] . View more context for this quotation 1690 J. Locke Ep. Ded. sig. A2 Trial and Examination must give it [sc. truth] price. 1703 R. Neve 58 To them Method and Confusion are both of a Price. 1765 C. Smart tr. xvi. 10 All the world is of no price When with thy love compar'd. 1845 C. Dickens 64 Some beautiful pictures, or other embellishments of great price..set, side by side, with..the veriest trash and tinsel ever seen. 1872 J. S. Blackie 92 Like some old creed Erect, to show what price it had before When men believed it had a power indeed. 1917 Jan. 16 They held their lives to be of little price, when weighed against a nation's fidelity to its engagements. 1971 W. Stegner (1972) v. iii. 293 A serape of great price was folded narrow and tossed over one shoulder. the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > good repute > reputability or honourableness > [noun] a1325 (c1250) (1968) l. 2690 Riche maiden of michel pris. a1400 (a1325) (Vesp.) 436 (MED) Angels all war fair and wis, And sum of less and sum mare pris. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart I. ccclxxiii. 616 Two barownes of great prise and hardynesse. c1560 (a1500) (Copland) 417 To watche that lady muche of pryce And her to kepe fro her enemyes. 1608 Bp. J. Hall i. 47 Those orphans which neuer knew the price of their father; they become the heires of his affection. †4. the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > [noun] ?a1300 Thrush & Nightingale (Digby) 158 in C. Brown (1932) 106 (MED) Niȝtingale, þou art ounwis On hem [sc. women] to leggen so muchel pris. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden (St. John's Cambr.) (1879) VII. 329 ‘Þou tellest greet prise of water,’ quod Robert; ‘telle þou more prise of water þan of oure broþer? woldest þou suffre hym deie for defaute of water?’ c1395 G. Chaucer 934 Wel biloued and holden in gret prys. 1429 IV. 345/2 Setting no price by your saide Prive Seal. a1450 (Westm. Sch. 3) (1967) 24 When we loue ony creature bifore God, we sette God at liȝt pryce & ouervnworþi hym make. 1485 (St. Albans) i. sig. b vij She told lytell pris of her lord & of hym had scorne and desspyt. a1500 (a1450) (Trin. Cambr.) 35 Shuld sette hyr worchippe at so litill prise. a1504 J. Holt (1508) iii. sig. H.iv These .ii. verbes actyues Pono & Fero compowned with pre or ante be thus englysshed, to tell more pryce, to sette more by, [etc.]. 1526 Heb. xiii. 4 Let wedlocke be had in pryce in all poyntes. 1581 W. Stafford (1876) i. 25 They fall to those sciences that they see in some pryce. 1594 Authors Concl. f. 62v Her vertue shall be had in prise. 1601 F. Godwin 444 Perceiuing the monkes onely were now in price, and other cleargy men little esteemed. 1662 H. More (ed. 2) Pref. Gen. p. xi Where men have an over-proportionated zeale for or against such things in Religion as God puts little or no price upon. 1788 W. Marshall Provincialisms E. Yorks. in II. 346 Preace, estimation: such a person or thing is in ‘great preace’. the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > evaluation, estimation, appraisal > [noun] > so as to fix value a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) iii. vi. 74 Would..they Had bin my Fathers Sonnes, then had my prize Bin lesse, and so more equall ballasting To thee Posthumus. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) v. ii. 179 Cæsars no Merchant, to make prize with you Of things that Merchants sold. View more context for this quotation †III. Superiority. Cf. prize n.1the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > surpassing excellence > [noun] the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > outdoing or surpassing > outdo or surpass [verb (intransitive)] > surpass everything a1275 in C. Brown (1932) 25 Þou bere ihesu, heuene-king..Of alle þou berest þat pris. a1325 (c1250) (1968) l. 326 A tre..Ðat ouer alle oðere bereð pris. a1393 J. Gower (Fairf.) viii. 695 Receive he scholde a certein mede And in the cite bere a pris. a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich xliii. 222 Of konnenge hadde he not þe pris. 1485 (Caxton) ix. xviii. sig. x.viv Of goodely harpynge he bereth the pryce in the world. ?1529 R. Hyrde tr. J. L. Vives i. iii. sig. C.iiijv All..by one assent gaue her the price of goodnes and chastite. 1573 ii. ii. sig. Cv All these beare the price. 1585 R. Lane Let. 3 Sept. in R. Hakluyt (1889) XIII. 301 Course canuas they also like well of, but copper caryeth the price of all, so it be made red. the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > [noun] a1350 (c1307) in R. H. Robbins (1959) 24 (MED) In vch bataille þou hadest pris. c1450 (?a1400) (Ashm.) 826 (MED) Þe palme here of my first price [v.r. pride], I pray þe resayfe. 1485 (Caxton) v. x. sig. i.viiiv I had leuer to haue ben torn with wylde horses than ony..page or pryker shold haue had prys on me. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart I. ccccxv. 726 If ye flemynges had achyued the prise ouer them. 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus f. 160 Tethrippo had gotten the price & chief maisterie at Olympia. 1568 in W. T. Ritchie (1930) IV. f. 286 v Ffra thay leif play to think þe pryss vane. IV. Cost. the world > time > change > exchange > [noun] > person or thing exchanged a1300 in C. Brown (1932) 82 (MED) Him-self he gaf for þe in pris, to buge þe blis. c1390 (Vernon) (1950) 32 (MED) Þou sweete Ihesu..ȝeuest not one of þi good to wouwe wiþ þi lemmon, bote to ȝiue þi self for me in prys of my soule. a1450 (Westm. Sch. 3) (1967) 31 (MED) Þe whiche soules he bouȝt so dere wiþ þe price of his derworþe blood. c1475 (a1449) J. Lydgate Order of Fools (Harl.) in (1840) 169 The sleyghti fox..Takithe to his larder at what price he wold, Of gretter lambren, j., ij., or thre. 1587 J. Higgins (new ed.) Pinnar vi Made mee pay the price of pillage with my bloud. 1598 W. Shakespeare v. ii. 223 Rosa. We can affoord no more at such a price. King. Prise you your selues: What buyes your company? 1613 S. Purchas 775 They vse smokie fires in their rooms, almost with the price of their eyes sauing their skins. c1647 Ld. Clarendon (1703) II. vii. 189 So much enamoured on Peace, that he would have been glad, the King should have bought it at any price. 1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto lxxv. 308 He determined to bring his design to pass at any price whatsoever. 1755 E. Young Centaur vi, in (1757) IV. 253 The lowest price of virtue is vigilance, and industry; and if it costs us no more, it comes very cheap. 1774 D. Graham (ed. 3) xv. 175 She sued for peace at any price. 1831 M. W. Shelley (rev. ed.) 15 One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought. 1859 B. Jerrold 155 We love peace, as we abhor pusillanimity; but not peace at any price. 1866 R. W. Dale v. 164 We know at how great a price our inheritance of truth has been purchased. 1923 R. Fry 29 Apr. (1972) II. 533 The British public won't have me at any price. 1958 J. Wain vii. 145 Any of us might make a mistake... Society decreed that I should pay the price, and I've paid it. 1979 P. Cosgrave i. 36 Remember, Ahmed my dear, the price of liberty is eternal vigilance. 2001 12 Nov. 147/3 The images are not as sharp..as on a CRT display. For most people, that's a small price to pay for the real estate gain and the cool factor. 8. society > trade and finance > charges > freedom from charge > [adverb] a1382 (Bodl. 959) 2 Kings xxiv.24 I schal bien bi prijs [a1425 L.V. for prijs] of þee. ?c1450 (?a1400) J. Wyclif (1880) 393 Welle neȝ alle her blessyngis ben sett to sale and to prise. 1531–2 in J. Imrie et al. (1960) 117 In price of ane meir. ?1548 J. Bale (new ed.) iii. sig. Rriiii Whosoeuer therfore hath a will conformable vnto Gods will, lette hym take frely without pryce or payment,..the plesaunte water of the lyfe for euer. 1611 Isa. lv. 1 Come, buy wine and milke without money, and without price . View more context for this quotation 1710 W. Congreve Eleventh Satire of Juvenal in III. 939 Wisely make that kind of Food thy Choice, To which Necessity confines thy price. 1745 xxvi. i Free to the Poor, Life's Waters flow, and bought without a Price. 1867 R. W. Emerson Progr. Culture in (1906) III. 225 Land without price is offered to the settler. 1919 W. Lang ii. 13 It is pleasant to march down to the kitting-up store and have garments thrown at you..without price. society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > [noun] a1382 (Bodl. 959) Num. xxii. 7 Þe aldryn of Moab..wentyn forþ, hauynge prise of þe dyuynynge in þe hoondys. a1400 (a1325) (Vesp.) 15967 (MED) Moder, i haf mi maister sald..And in mi purs þe pris [a1400 Trin. Cambr. penyes] i bere. 1433 IV. 477/2 Uch of hem have..yerely xxvi s. viii d. and a Robe pris of xs. 1481 W. Caxton tr. (1893) clxv. 244 To haue vytaylles at resonable prys. 1490 W. Caxton tr. (1885) xxviii. 577 I wyll not reteyn you for that pryse that I do knaves, for I shall paye you in conscyence after the werke that ye shall doo. 1535 Zech. xi. 13 A goodly pryce for me to be valued at of them. 1588 T. Hickock tr. C. Federici f. 5v When as the Marchant thinketh that he cannot sell his goods at the price currant. 1600 W. Shakespeare iii. v. 22 This making of Christians will raise the price of Hogs. View more context for this quotation 1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot i. 32 The common price of the Bagnio, is two Aspres to the Master. 1727 D. Defoe II. ii. v. 158 She comes up to his Price within about half a Crown a Yard. 1796 W. Hutchinson 80 It was now that provisions began to rise in price. 1828 Ld. Grenville 45 The farmer who has sold his wheat at its market price, has obtained for it neither more nor less than a just equivalent. 1852 C. Dickens (1853) xi. 105 The man..gave him the price of a supper and a night's lodging. 1885 10 Sept. 5/3 He is supplied..at a reduction of 40 per cent. on the trade price. 1932 E. O'Neill 174 I ain't got the price of a drink, that's why I'm here, sir. 1948 A. Paton ii. vi. 162 These shares are climbing in price to heights that are beyond expectation. 1989 Jan. 26/2 We calculated an average price for each item. 2000 S. Afr. 28 Jan. 3/3 The price of iluminating paraffin would rise 5c/ll. 1662 W. Petty v. 33 Now the price of labour must be certain, (as we see it made by the Statutes which limit the day wages of several workmen). 1692 J. Locke 168 The value or price of any thing being only the respective estimate it bears to some other, which it comes in Competition with. 1757 J. Harris 94 What measures and pays the price of labour will be ultimately the real standard of the nation. 1776 A. Smith I. i. v. 36 The real price of every thing, what every thing really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it. View more context for this quotation 1848 J. S. Mill iii. i. §2 Exchange value requires to be distinguished from Price... The most accurate modern writers..have employed Price to express the value of a thing in relation to money; the quantity of money for which it will exchange. 1868 J. E. T. Rogers iii. 21 The price of an article..is its estimate in some one uniform measure. 1900 Ld. Aldenham ii. 31 Price..is the ratio..between the money-measure and the purchaseable commodity measured. 1948 58 596 If value and price of production are defined according to Marx, there exists a simple transformation connecting the two. 1998 1998 209 The team's research strategy was to compare companies that face the same relative prices of labor and capital,..but different capital productivity. society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > high price or rate > [noun] 1866 10 May 9/4 We know that such aid would be given only at a price. 1920 ‘K. Mansfield’ Bank Holiday in 6 Aug. 166/1 He likes to watch..her puzzled eyes lifted to his: ‘Aren't they a price!’ 1938 F. D. Sharpe xix. 202 A man offered to sell ‘protection’ to the bookmakers—at a price. 1994 11 Sept. 17/3 There's a deal for your every desire, at a price. society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > illegal payment or exaction > [noun] > bribe society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > illegal payment or exaction > [noun] > bribe > amount of c1400 (?a1300) (Laud) (1952) 1487 (MED) Þe Romeynes hym sendeþ þis prise, And gretyng, and ‘redy to his seruise’. 1631 J. Weever 254 To procure his fauour for an election, either by petition, or price. 1734 W. Wyndham in 8 97 Every Man has his Price. 1780 J. Bentham (1789) xiv. §8 (note) It is a well-known adage, though it is to be hoped not a true one, that every man has his price. 1860 J. W. Warter II. 327 Amongst the lower orders most have their price. 1907 27 Mar. 6/6 By the time Sir Robert Walpole arrived on the political scene it was possible for him to be credited with the now familiar saying, ‘Every man has his price’. 1911 J. Clague 17 The master of the feast was the person to choose the partner at a dance. Sometimes the master was told to put the wrong pairs together, for that he would get a price (bribe). 1979 F. Iyayi xix. 260 ‘Every man has a price,’ she told herself. She would buy him over now. 1993 Feb. 12/2 Bush..would have signed the Brady Bill as soon as the Democrats in Congress met his price. the world > action or operation > behaviour > reciprocal treatment or return of an action > reward or a reward > [noun] > sum offered for capture or death of person 1679 J. Davies tr. Appian ii. i. 33 For a full Acknowledgment of so many good deeds his Enemies had proscribed and set a price upon his Head. 1720 J. Ozell et al. tr. R. A. de Vertot II. xi. 184 Sylla set a Price upon the Heads of all that were proscribed. 1767 tr. C. di Beccaria Bonesana xxv. 87 The law..sets a price on the head of the subject. 1842 XXIII. 159/2 The prince having heard of the price put upon his person, issued a counter proclamation, offering 30,000l. for apprehending the elector of Hanover. 1886 H. C. De Mille Main Line i. i, in (1941) xvii. 5 S'pose Brocho George did have a price on him for robbin' the mail car. 1951 R. Harling (1952) 44 He was..carrying on as if life is like something in a film, with a character in the back with a price on his head and the police after him. 1987 4 Apr. 6/8 Two British women battling to help the sick and wounded in a besieged Beirut refugee camp said yesterday they believe there is a price on their heads. 2003 14 June b6/5 Her master looked for her for a year and a half and put a price on her head. society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > betting > [noun] > odds 1829 23 Apr. 3/3 The following are the closing prices:—..3 to 1 agst Zinganee. 1862 Aug. 98 ‘The latest prices’ of the Cup horses. 1928 9 Mar. 11/6 A backer can have his choice between the starting price or the prevailing odds at the moment he makes his wager. 1961 ‘J. Prescot’ iv. 61 The ‘springer’, the horse that suddenly shortens in price because someone in the know slaps a lot of money on at the last possible moment. 1999 Feb. 6/3 It doesn't matter how hard the off-course firms try to shorten up the odds, they'll keep on standing the price. Phrases P1. of price. the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > good repute > reputability or honourableness > [adjective] ?a1300 Dame Sirith 120 in G. H. McKnight (1913) 6 (MED) Mi louerd is curteis mon and hende And mon of pris. c1330 (?c1300) (Auch.) 168 (MED) Kniȝtes to hauen & holden of pris. c1450 in F. J. Furnivall (1867) 53 Horible deuelis of helle, Þat sumtyme were aungils of prijs. c1450 (a1400) (Calig. A.ii) (1969) 1243 (MED) For a lady of prys, Wyth rode reed as rose on ryse, Þys countre ys yn dowte. c1475 (?c1451) (Royal) (1860) 26 Men of price and renomme. c1540 (?a1400) (2002) f. 28v Mykell pepull of prise & proude men of armys. c1557 (new ed.) sig. Biv I can spede the of a seruaunte of pryce That wil do the good seruice. c1580 ( tr. (1925) I. i. 1069 A! gentill duke of pris. 1904 W. V. Moody ii. 217 He is our best, Our soul of price, and him the gods demand. the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > worth > [adjective] society > trade and finance > monetary value > [adjective] > of great value a1325 (c1250) (1968) l. 2700 He carf in two gummes of pris Two likenesses, so grauen & meten. c1390 G. Chaucer 2087 Men speken of romances of pris, Of Hornchild and Ypotys. c1450 (c1350) (Bodl.) (1929) 716 A fair pokok of pris. a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. (Rawl.) (1898) 154 (MED) Where ben thay that noryssheth the grete horsyn of pryce? 1588 T. Hariot sig. B2 The same earth doth also yeelde White Copresse, Nitrum, and Alumen plumeum, but nothing so plentifully as the common Allum; which be also of price and profitable. 1600 W. Shakespeare v. iii. 98 Happy news of price . View more context for this quotation 1615 G. Sandys 11 Faire pillars of marble..and other stones of price. 1700 J. Dryden tr. Homer 1st Bk. Ilias in 190 For Venerable Chryses came to buy, With Gold and Gifts of Price, his Daughters Liberty. 1775 E. Burke 61 Freedom is..the commodity of price, of which you have the monopoly. 1852 W. Allingham (1912) 14 The Monks,..Snatching relics and psalters and vessels of price, Got into the Round-Tower and pull'd up the ladder. 1883 E. Arnold 233 A topaz of price, unpierced, and a diamond diadem. 1917 L. Binyon 49 The things that once we deemed of price Consumed in smoke of sacrifice. 1582 N. Lichefield tr. F. L. de Castanheda i. xxxii. f. 79v His girdell,..made of Golde and Stone that the same was aboue all price [It. chenon haueua prezzo; Port. (1551) qua não tinha preço, (1554) que era cousa sem preço]. ?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer xxiv. 331 A bowle, whose value he did hold Beyond all price. a1674 T. Traherne Innocence in (1966) 12 All was beyond all Bound and Price. 1725 7 The Value of such a Constitution must be above all Price. 1781 W. Cowper 56 But will Sincerity suffice? It is indeed above all price, And must be made the basis. 1805 19 Sept. 3/2 The value in his estimation was beyond price, but intrinsically the box was worth 300l. 1859 Ld. Tennyson Merlin & Vivien 220 in A robe Of samite without price..clung about her lissome limbs. 1878 H. Grote Let. 15 Aug. in T. H. Lewin (1909) II. v. 343 Luckily I am able to read several hours out of the day, which is beyond price to one like myself. 1906 J. London Wit of Porportuk in 236 She was above price. I did not measure her in gold-dust. 1991 Mar. 152/1 The most expensive commodity, art, which is itself forever beyond price. 1621 J. Reynolds i. 12 Buying a Iewell from her which she was in price with, of a Gold-Smyth at Dijon. a1860 T. Parker (1867) II. 208 What has Pythagoras to do with the price of cotton? 1920 E. St. V. Millay Aria da Capo in R. Shay & P. Loving 434 Can't act! Can't act! La, listen to the woman! What's that to do with the price of furs?—You're blonde, Are you not? 1928 16/1 What's that got to do with the price of eggs? 1949 1 Sept. 25/2 Someone has stolen the Blarney Stone and an American insurance investigator has been sent to find out who. (Obviously this doesn't stand to reason, but what's that got to do with the price of ale?) 1998 P. Grace (1999) xxxvii. 286 ‘You've got to get rid of me some time, you're thirteen.’ ‘What's that got to do with the price of fish?’ 1890 22 Nov. 4 What price globo white elephant shares? 1907 G. B. Shaw Major Barbara ii. in 245 Bill (cynically..) Wot prawce Selvytion nah? 1914 C. Mackenzie II. iv. ix. 1114 It's all very nice for you to be so calm. But what price its being my watch that's lost, not yours, old sport? 1930 R. Lehmann vii. 301 But what price jaunts on Sundays—eh? 1973 ‘B. Graeme’ iv. 31 What price himself to replace Perkins, he asked himself with cynical amusement. 1998 May 65/3 What price masculinity now? Compounds C1. General attributive, objective, and instrumental. a. 1908 14 Aug. 13/3 Naval activity..may, on an ordinarily steady market, cause a price ‘boom’ in smokeless steam coals. 1999 13 60 For an undiversified commodity exporter, standard principles suggest a conservative response to price booms. 1910 2 Nov. 8/5 (heading) Price boosts for grain in Chicago pit. 1997 52 2111 It could be that this price boost is reversed over time, but the dissipation is too slow to be observed. 1927 19 June a3/2 Where the upper end of one line and the lower end of another are in the same price bracket, the cars are decidedly different in style. 2000 Winter 203/1 A well specced package, as you would expect in this price bracket. 1935 31 Dec. 10/4 Consumers displayed less price consciousness and demanded better grades of food to clothing. 1999 C. J. Tuohy v. 135 The increasing price-consciousness of both public and private payers required that care be provided in the least costly setting feasible. 1778 Jan. 3 (heading) Price control. 1904 Aug. 83 Where the coal is sold to the neighborhood and to mine employees..it comes also under its [sc. the syndicate's] price control. 1974 3 Oct. 422/3 The attempted price controls..have been far too severe. 2004 Feb. 7/4 I am in touch with OFGEM, taking them to task for removing price control on electricity prices which allows suppliers to charge any price they can get away with. 1941 24 June 2/6 (heading) Price freeze on furniture is requested. 1996 30 May (European Parl. Suppl.) 1/2 By and large Parliament went along with the Commission's plan for a virtual price freeze across a whole range of products. 1924 24 July 1/1 Hundreds of farmers, anticipating price hikes caused by poor crops in Canada and other wheat producing countries are holding their wheat. 1992 Fall 4/2 To prevent similar price hikes in the future, this legislation enables the Federal Communications Commission..to set rates for basic cable service. 1900 4 Jan. 7/3 The price history of the stock. 1991 5 Oct. 110/1 If price changes are random, why do so many traders..pay so much to ‘chartist’ firms that sell various methods of analysing price histories? 1885 13 May 5/2 Some of the borrowers will..find it necessary to be generous in their price issue when so many are in the field. 1895 28 Mar. 3/3 The pool..can have a fixed basis upon which to grade their coal price increase for their own profit. 1945 35 179 Some limitations on the Administrator's power to curb inflationary price increases were imposed. 1999 M. Pendergrast xvi. 319 She had gone ‘cold turkey’, abandoning her favorite beverage in response to ‘scandalous’ price increases. 1852 24 July 7/6 It was found to contain..9 or 10 pairs of new shoes, with the price-labels still on them. 1999 30 454 Manufacturers sometimes attach price labels to their products, indicating the manufacturer's suggested retail prices. 1886 49 591 If we are to ascertain whether any real change in the price level has taken place, it will be necessary to take the average prices of a number of years. 1927 A. L. Bowley & J. C. Stamp 58 On account of the change in price-level, we should substitute a comparative level. 1997 Mar. (California Suppl.) 5/2 California has the ability to make wines of good quality at virtually any price level. 1900 J. Pollitt (Central Board Ironmongers' Federated Assocs.) 2 The act of laying down a definite selling price in order that the dealer may definitely know that he has an assurance of safety in selling at that price, is ‘Price Maintenance’. 1912 20 358 The advantages of price-maintenance were urged from two standpoints. 1994 (Canad. Bar Assoc.) June 12/1 Anyone (natural or corporate) indulging in..pyramid selling or price maintenance can expect to be prosecuted if caught. 1625 S. Purchas iii. vi. 198 I required leaue to sell my cloath, as I might, with a publike price making. 1632 W. Lithgow x. 439 [Let him beware] the eating of Victuals, and drinking of Wine without price making; least (when he hath done)..his charges be redoubled. 1888 in H. D. Lloyd (1898) xvi. 214 Influence, as a fact of supply and demand, an element of price-making, is not mentioned in any political economy. 1938 H. B. Drury & E. G. Nourse vii. 138 Organized labor has also brought its vested interest in jobs indirectly to bear on the process of price-making. 1998 88 580/1 When empirical research into price making is carried out, the Marxian approach seems to fit actual behavior. society > communication > indication > marking > a mark > [noun] > mark upon goods indicating price society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > pricing > [noun] > attaching price-tag > ticket or mark indicating price 1739 C. Leadbetter ii. 27 The Officer is to let pass, as having paid the Duty of Vellum and Parchment; provided the same appears to have the Price Mark † of the Stamp-Office thereon. 1797 15 Feb. 3/2 He..had examined the price mark, which was new, on the 26th of March, 1791. 1893 7 142/2 It was probably used as a kind of trade- or price-mark in this case. 1937 Apr. 149/1 (advt.) Send us the price marks from 50c worth of Mandeville packets and you will receive..1 packet new Creeping Zinnias. 2002 (Nexis) 8 Mar. 6 Whoever told them to launch a 9 per cent lager with a pricemark of 99p is clearly a double agent working for Budweiser or Interbrew! society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > fluctuation in price > [noun] 1876 10 Oct. 5/1 It is almost useless to give either quotations or an account of price movements while the present suspense prevails. 1948 G. Crowther (rev. ed.) iii. 95 This is one way in which price movements have a direct causal effect on the level of production and employment. 1997 Mar. 108/3 There can be quite significant price movements on low trading volumes. 1871 Dec. 849/2 Spending money with great energy, and being reprehended for so doing by the travellers of all other nations, as price-raisers. 1938 9 142/2 Domestic proration might achieve a very considerable success as a price stabilizer or price raiser. 1991 H. K. H. Woo v. 232 They aim at rooting out the benefits of inflation that the price-raisers set out to reap. 1883 26 Dec. 2/3 The above price range, with a moderate addition for transit and wine merchants' profit, still commands excellent champagne. 1937 M. Hillis iii. 48 Another good rule is not to attempt to have everything come within the same price range. 1999 Mar. 85/1 (advt.) By the 1950's the mass-produced or homemade 6-inch parabolic mirror brought medium-sized optics into the price range of the average amateur. 1883 30 May In order to meet the requirements of the price-reductions necessitated. 1925 Feb. (verso front cover) (advt.) A complete 6 piece set of fumed solid oak living room furniture..at a positively sensational price reduction. 1994 23 Jan. (Business section) 3/2 The supermarketeers continually run local promotions varying from money-off coupons to price reductions and discounts for multiple purchases. 1892 55 358/1 Legal theories of price regulation. 1935 12 Oct. 704/1 This shortage..is largely a consequence of planning and price-regulation. 1992 R. Manning iv. 60 A sweeping new price regulation for pine lumber. 1940 A. H. Hansen in II. 31/2 The problem confronting a price review board would seem to be relatively simpler than that confronting a wage review board. 2002 21 Nov. 8/2 Malaysia will only discuss the price review of water now being sold to the republic. 1905 27 Aug. 5/1 (advt.) The black silk demand..has raised blacks to the pinnacle of popularity; of course a price rise will follow. 1994 12 Oct. 28/1 Market experts insisted that price rises had been exaggerated by stock shortages, with traders trying to un-wind bearish market positions. 1620 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes xvi. 176 Now let the Venter and the grand Sancho bee Arbitratours, and Price-Setters betweene your Worship and me. 1896 8 Aug. 8/1 Owing to the uniformly high grade of its product..it has been regarded as the price setter for the entire region. 1992 18 Jan. 52/3 In economic theory, under perfect competition firms should be price takers; in monopoly-infested Russia they were price setters. 1932 16 Nov. 17/3 The very small sum on the price sticker will surprise. 1999 D. F. Wallace 311 She was eating a supermarket apple with a small supermarket price sticker still affixed to it. 1891 G. Clare 89 At all times some semblance of agreement is traceable between the respective price-waves. 1941 J. A. Estey vi. 135 Wars..tend to come at the end of a rising price wave and social disturbances at the end of a falling price wave. 1999 (Nexis) 2 July a6 They don't try to outsmart other investors. They just ride the price waves as they appear. b. 1930 2 Apr. (advt.) The public is being taught in much of the advertising nowadays, to be ‘price-conscious’ rather than ‘merchandise-wise’. 1992 Jan. 49/2 The growing presence of imported flies in the market is a boon to price-conscious anglers. 1919 9 51 In the case of price-controlled commodities, the government has allowed certain prescribed percentages as a maximum profit. 1995 A. Smith i. iii. 55 So long as the private sector is relatively small, the price-controlled official distribution system may keep all prices relatively low. 1785 W. Cowper vi. 291 Oft as the price-deciding hammer falls. 2002 (Nexis) 26 Feb. JPPCC member Su Huixin proposed to improve and perfect the price-deciding hearings system. a1764 W. Hogarth in Feb. 88/2 Let the picture rust, Perhaps Time's price-enhancing dust..may mark its worth. 1902 29 Jan. 4/1 Why cannot the southern farmer make the same money by raising it on his own cheaper lands and with the saving of all those incidental and price-enhancing charges? 1996 49 294 The fringe can free-ride on the big firm's price enhancing efforts. 1916 6 183 Competition would remain in effect between the various identified and price-maintained articles. 1991 22 122 Any retailer who chooses a price-maintained product has tied her hands regardless of her opponents' choice of prices. 1890 23 Aug. 238/2 Wheat..is still pre-eminently the price-ruling grain. 1926 21 155 These importing countries tend to be price sensitive and perhaps make up the most elastic element in the demand curve for wheat. 1996 11 Aug. (Business section) 2/7 Making sure that investors receive full and timely disclosure of price-sensitive information. c. 1916 6 197 They are standards for pricing all goods, whether price-maintained or not. 1991 22 128 At least one retailer will choose to price maintain her product when RPM is legal and fixed fees are not allowed. C2. 1944 29 June 5/4 Securities shifted over a slim price band today on the stock exchange and curb market. 1999 51/2 The all-important £201–£300 price band is where the upgrader is most likely to look when pensioning off an entry-level purchase. 1743 W. Salmon (title) The builder's price-book. 1864 R. B. Peake in W. E. Burton II. 851 He should know Shakspere and the ‘Trader's Price Book’ by heart. 1934 W. Boyle (title) Price book of motor repairs and service. 2004 Mar. 9/2 (advt.) The BMI Price Book provides labour constants and measured rates. 1909 3 Jan. s4 (advt.) A well known manufacturer recently described Mr. Ford as the ‘price buster’, and that fits him. Every reduction in automobile price has been forced by Ford. 1927 5 Apr. 7/1 (advt.) This is a real price buster at 60c. 1977 6 June 112/1 Champion price-buster so far in 1977 is tungsten, which has ballooned 30% in price since February. 1984 Aug. 17/2 (heading) Pricebuster: how the boys at the Brick honed the fine art of discount marketing. 1990 23 June 41/4 A new job away from the area is another price-buster. The new poll tax rules mean owners will pay a double charge. 1996 Feb. 68 A real price buster that enables you to stock up your wardrobe. 2001 2 Feb. 4 Like the menu, the moderately sized wine list is short on price-buster specials. 1975 22 July 1/2 The main snags include how high to set the price cap on domestic crude oil. 2002 12 May iv. 4/4 California tried to impose price caps on its market..to eliminate the incentive for producers to withhold supply and drive up prices. 1917 27 June Charges of secret price capping by coal operatives accused by government of conspiracy to fix prices were made in letters read to the jury in Federal court today. 2004 (Nexis) 11 Nov. 52 Fund Giant Fidelity wants the Government to scrap price capping. 1905 28 Mar. 7/2 The disagreement arose from matters pertaining to the price code. 1907 7 Apr. viii. 6/1 Most frequently the price code is arranged on a word of nine or ten letters. 1989 68 688 Monopoly firms profited from price codes at the expense of smaller businesses. 2004 (Nexis) 18 Oct. 9 Someone has to look for the price code on four or five different types of pears. 1912 18 Dec. 2/3 One hundred and twenty million pounds of butter..protected from a hungry nation by the price commission of the Elgin butter board. 1978 5 Aug. 20 A quango covers just about everything from the Price Commission to the Police Complaints Board. 1996 45 181 New local price commissions filled the gap left by the decline of the old apparatus. society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > discount > [noun] 1894 27 Mar. 8/4 (advt.) Deep are the price cuts and great the values which make the fire sale boom at the Syndicate Block. 1957 1 Apr. 28/2 In the chemical industry it is impossible to tell in advance whether a price cut may at some time in the future ‘tend substantially to reduce competition’. 1995 16 May i. 17/5 Analysts reckon most of the price cuts will be recouped in higher rents and service charges. 1925 1 ii. 259/1 The retailer who is given a big discount must not price-cut to the public. 1965 28 554 The assumption of the publishers was that ‘best sellers’ would be price-cut. 2003 17 May (Food Suppl.) 10/3 Critics say that supermarket strategy is to price-cut ruthlessly on KVIs while hiking up margins on lines that nobody has a clue about. society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > fluctuation in price > [noun] > decline in prices > cutting prices > one who 1888 3 July (advt.) If you want low prices to rule patronize the price cutters. 1967 4 Mar. 845/1 The steady erosion of prices that followed the arrival of the price-cutters. 1998 G. Crompton in T. R. Gourvish & R. G. Wilson x. 167 A few years later the financially troubled CTL was a more conspicuous price-cutter. society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > fluctuation in price > [noun] > decline in prices > cutting prices 1887 2 75 Price-cutting within the combination had been going on for some time. 1929 2 Nov. 7/5 That could only be done with the abolition of the suicidal policy of price-cutting and competition. 1993 J. Kay xvii. 280 A firm adopting a price-cutting strategy can expect to increase its share of outlets only relatively slowly. 1904 R. Kipling 215 The price-cutting Co-operative stores. 1998 7 Nov. (Jobs & Money section) 17/2 Many of the price-cutting telephone-based direct insurers simply won't consider a grey import. society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > pricing > [noun] > varying the price to different customers 1900 Jan. 52/1 Closely affiliated with these methods of price discrimination is another that has been much used, namely, a kind of ‘factors' agreement’. 1995 M. J. Trebilcock & R. Howse v. 112 Both Canadian and US antitrust laws prohibit various forms of domestic price discrimination. 1979 (U.S. Senate Comm. on Finance) III. 847 The conservation savings result from a variety of tax, regulatory, and price driven programs which comprise a vast number of separate activities. 1992 Nov. 130/1 With its clout, Compaq has accelerated to move toward a price-driven market. 2004 (Nexis) 28 Oct. 30 This is about reducing prices while maintaining margins. And it's not restricted to one particular segment of price-driven consumers. society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > prices of stocks and shares 1929 24 21 The price-earnings ratio..has become very popular in recent years. 1992 11 Apr. ii. 5/7 With price–earnings ratios in the high 30s, Japanese shares are effectively valued at three times the ratings of British shares. 1941 9 43 The change in the price of a good causes the expenditure for it to change..in the opposite direction, if the demand is price-elastic. 1990 R. Izhar i. xii. 182 A business which increases price to improve its profit margin will suffer a drop in the volume of sales, especially if demand is price-elastic. society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > pricing > [noun] > adjusting to equal supply or demand > responsiveness to adjustment 1928 6 Aug. 17/4 Little is publicly known of the agreement, but it is believed to inaugurate measures aiming at price elasticity. 1991 2 223 A negative shadow price elasticity of say R with respect to S denotes a decrease in the willingness to pay for R following an increase in S. 1947 2 Sept. 16/1 The state has just price-fixed liquor... Attorney General Tom Clark is too busy busting price-fixes to brake lining to notice this threat to stomach lining. 2004 (Nexis) 30 Nov. Banks were essentially operating a price fix. 1947 2 Sept. 16/1 The state has just price-fixed liquor. 1994 10 Oct. 70/3 Don't boycott me and don't price-fix me. 1916 6 175 These identified and price-fixed articles are sometimes excellent, sometimes good, sometimes ordinary. 1999 C. A. Jones xiii. 158 A state government injured as a purchaser of price-fixed goods can bring an action for injury to its property the same as any private concern. society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > pricing > [noun] > price-fixing by manufacturers 1889 4 585 Occupying the price-fixing position in their class, both of them sell at cost and have no surplus. 1920 4 June 6 Competition will reduce prices in time, but price-fixing..will only arrest the tendency to cheapness. 1991 3 Oct. 16/3 As in any monopoly or ‘protected industry’, internal inefficiencies are inevitably masked by price fixing. society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > fluctuation in price > [noun] > (an) increase in price > raising price > by large amounts 1917 6 Nov. 5/1 If there is any price-gouging it isn't done by the retailers, this grocer maintained. 1994 Nov. 39/2 All artists are asked to keep their prices similar to prevent price-gouging or price-wars. society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > fluctuation in price > [noun] > index of 1886 872 The index for quantity is the same as that for value in the standard year (1883); that for 1884 is arrived at by dividing the value index by the price index. 1930 5 Apr. 763/1 The Economist price index has fallen during the past two years much more heavily than price indices in certain other countries on the gold standard. 1998 Aug. (In-depth Ser. No. 7: PaperCom Conference 1988) 62 (advt.) Containing price indices and all key trends and data, these journals are unique and invaluable ‘bibles’ for all market watchers. 1928 4 Nov. n19/5 What the store executives will uncover in their studies has been indicated only in a vague way. Of course, there has been ‘price lining’ to cater to the main income groups. 1938 W. Hamilton et al. 379 Another factor which shapes the markup is the policy of ‘price lining’ or the concentration of goods at certain fixed price points. 1970 L. E. Preston & M. H. Baker 220 Price-lining occurs, for example, in the women's apparel industry, where items are routinely designed and produced in conformity with established final resale price lines: $9.95, $14.95, $19.95, and so forth. 2000 (Nexis) Mar. 43 Price lining is the well-known practice of offering different products or services at various price points to meet different customers' needs. society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > [noun] > price-list 1795 (title) Engine-weaving price-list. 1854 L. Lindner Let. 30 Sept. in E. Flagg (1857) III. 232 They comprise a very great variety of fancy goods... I have found it impossible..to form from them a price list complete. 1886 8 June 11/1 Eurasian and Lord Charles contested the second position in the price list at 100 to 12. 1915 W. Owen 8 Jan. (1967) 313 What my friend advised me to do is get price-lists and samples from England immediately. 1940 23 Mar. 8/4 Professor Hellinger gives you his annual price list on the big leagues... The New York Yankees are the shortest-priced favorites in the history of the game. 1991 Feb. 38/5 (advt.) Send for our free introduction and mail order price list. 2003 (Nexis) 8 Aug. 16 The Black Cats (10/1) are behind both West Ham United and West Bromwich Albion in the price list. 1888 V. B. Denslow Index 717/2 Competition, as a price-maker. 1918 8 603 One great reason why the merchant seems to be an arbitrary price-maker is because he knows the market and sets a price which will move the goods, and by no means always at a profit. 1953 63 416 An economy in which some transactors, namely all non-farming firms, are price-makers, though everybody else remains a price taker. 2004 372/1 Monopolistic firms, in contrast, are ‘price makers’. Unlike their competitive counterparts, monopolists significantly affect aggregate output by altering their own output. 1894 21 Apr. 2/2 Women's Capes... More than five hundred styles of them, reaching up to—almost any price point you please. 1900 J. A. Hobson iv. 127 The subjective valuations of a single owner and a single tenant..fix the limits for the price of a unit.., the stronger of the two fixing the price-point. 1935 H. J. Davenport iv. 103 With any particular purchase the surplus must be, one thinks, computed from the actual price point. 1977 6 June 95/1 He has to calculate whether..he will be able to sell the merchandise at a price point that is attractive to his customers—‘price point’ being a phrase that was perhaps best defined for me by someone who explained that three hundred and ninety-nine dollars is a price point and four hundred and twelve dollars is not. 2000 Feb. 72/1 One final leverage point for business models of online companies is value matching, in which sellers and buyers—whether businesses or consumers—arrive at a mutually satisfactory price point. 1921 17 910 The compilers..made use of weighted price relatives, but these price relatives were weighted by constants representing the estimated money values of each commodity in the base year or period. 1953 S. Hays (ed. 4) xii. 126 The ‘price relative’ is the ratio of the price at one period to the price at another. 2002 C. D. MacKie & C. L. Schultze ii. 75 The Laspeyres averages these price relatives, each weighted according to the good's importance in the base period. society > trade and finance > trading organization > [noun] society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > pricing > [noun] > association determining prices 1914 18 June 12/3 We knew it was in constant danger of being absorbed by some combination and welded in an ever-widening price ring. 1997 D. Ritschel v. 227 The industry was organized into a series of price rings which served mainly to support the continued existence of inefficient plants. 1910 22 Feb. 5 (advt.) Expert sale managers, the world's greatest price slashers and bargain givers known. 2000 (Nexis) 30 Mar. 43 It is possible to advertise in a much cheaper way... This idea could possibly be far more interesting than simply being a price slasher. society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > fluctuation in price > [noun] > decline in prices > cutting prices > by large amount 1903 J. P. Norton in (1904) 3rd Ser. 5 37 Price-slashing is done in competitive goods. 2002 (Nexis) 3 Jan. 14 They have the sales before Christmas, but the deep priceslashing comes afterwards. society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > fluctuation in price > [noun] > (an) increase in price > ban on price increases 1938 48 377 By the ‘price-stop’ decree of Nov. 26th, 1936, the upward movement of prices was effectively arrested. 1997 T. Notermans in K. R. Cox viii. 227 In order to prevent devaluation from merely leading to more inflation, the government proclaimed a price stop. society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > fluctuation in price > steadiness in price > [noun] > maintaining prices at certain level 1927 17 303 A consequence of an artificial price support in the first third of the crop year. 1992 B. Coote iv. 55 In 1965 the USA abandoned its stocking policy and reduced its price-support programme. society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > [noun] > price-control by market-forces society > trade and finance > management of money > management of national resources > [noun] > political economy > types of economic system 1889 4 13 The terrors of a rickety price-system brought us by our war, impressed us too little. 1951 R. Firth iv. 134 The price system..may be..of a highly traditionalized type, with relative inflexibility in rates over long periods. 1993 16 Dec. a24/2 The price system is the economic equivalent of the rule of law. society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > invoice or bill 1886 4 Jan. ‘Are these Greek letters?’ asked a lady, holding up a pair of stockings and pointing to the price tab. 1918 30 Dec. 5/5 At the woman's lodgings there was a lot of handbags and other property, all new, with price tabs still attached. 1949 12 Sept. 1/8 A big victory for labor in the board's belief that companies should pick up the price tab on pensions. 1998 50 269 The total price tab for the project was estimated at $36 billion. The pipeline was hailed by many in Russia as a way to inject capital into Siberia. society > communication > indication > that which identifies or distinguishes > labelling > [noun] > label, tag, or ticket society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > pricing > [noun] > attaching price-tag > ticket or mark indicating price 1880 1 Apr. Store-keepers reckon their profits by changing their price tags. 1951 30 Mar. 7/2 When I remember what a record transfer-fee price-tag did to Bryn Jones.., I can only sympathise with you. 1999 Y. M. Murray xi. 180 He might as well still have had that two-dollar price tag stuck on them knockoff Nikes he was wearing. society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > pricing > attach a price to [verb (transitive)] 1900 22 Feb. 8/4 (advt.) A few weeks ago these garments were price-tagged $14.69, 14.50, 15.00 and 16.50. 1972 Winter 61 These faceless experts make an attempt to price-tag the social benefit of forestry. 2002 (Nexis) 20 Sept. 5 At least six more shop assistants have been asked to offer as much time as they can to steaming clothes, price tagging toys and selling goods. society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > pricing > [noun] > attaching price-tag 1945 20 Mar. 1/3 Price-tagging provisions were written into the order to help shoppers become their own price policemen. 2004 (Nexis) 10 May 10 Her clients, most of whom live on housing estates, are involved in low-paid work such as sewing, ironing, price tagging and packaging. 1953 63 416 An economy in which some transactors, namely all non-farming firms, are price-makers, though everybody else remains a price taker. 1967 19 Apr. 25/2 (heading) A steering group is to study possible mergers in the wool industry which has been a ‘price-taker rather than a price maker’. 2002 P. Kotler et al. ii. 43 The Internet allows consumers to move from being price takers to price makers. society > communication > indication > that which identifies or distinguishes > labelling > [noun] > label, tag, or ticket society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > pricing > [noun] > attaching price-tag > ticket or mark indicating price 1830 S. Morgan II. 310 You suppose that I will send you, with the price-ticket fastened to your skirts, into the salon. 1842 7 Jan. 6/5 Nearly 200 different articles, the greater part of which still bore the price-tickets. 1957 P. Worsley viii. 159 Natives..tore the price-tickets off the goods. 1991 7 271/1 The price-ticket of a theatre performance in the three countries analysed, is in general far lower than the price-ticket of a video-recorder. society > trade and finance > trading conditions > [noun] > competition > intense competition or war 1895 5 280 A price-war has arisen, tending to the destruction of weaker enterprise. 1930 22 Mar. 652/2 Experience shows that this group invariably emerges from a price-war with a stronger hold on the oil markets than before. 1995 26 Feb. 6/3 The price wars have begun to take their toll... Supermarkets have cut so much off their prices that there's not much more to take. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † priceadj.Origin: Apparently formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: price n. Etymology: Apparently < price n. Compare of price at price n. Phrases 1 and Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French de pris (see price n.). Compare later praise adj., pres adj., prize adj. Obsolete. the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > excellence > [adjective] c1300 St. Thomas Becket (Laud) 142 in C. Horstmann (1887) 110 Seint Thomas was..pris martyr of engelonde. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 79 (MED) Þis citee [sc. Chester] haþ plente..of fische, and specialliche of pris salmoun [L. salmonis optimi]. c1400 (c1378) W. Langland (Laud 581) (1869) B. xix. 261 Grace gaue Piers a teme, foure gret oxen..The prys nete of Piers plow. c1440 (?a1400) 355 (MED) Send prekers to þe price toun and plaunte there my segge. 1480 W. Caxton ccxxiv Tho had euery English batayll 11 winges of pris archiers. a1500 (?c1450) 220 (MED) So dide wele thoo prise [Fr. proisie] knyghtes in her companye. a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 526 in W. A. Craigie (1925) II. 111 Ye pryss knycht. c1540 (?a1400) 6010 And Paris the prise with pepull ynogh. 1615 R. Brathwait Loves Labyrinth 54 in More prise and richer then those sisters three, Which kept the apples of faire Hespery. c1330 (?c1300) (Auch.) (1937) 137 Ouer al þe lond þan were þai priis. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus (BL Add.) f. 205v Smaragdus is pris [L. obtinet principatum] of alle grene stones. c1400 (?c1380) (1920) 1614 A prophete of þat province and pryce of þe worlde. c1540 (?a1400) 8954 Palomydon for prise the pert kynges toke And ordant hym Emperour. c1600 (?c1395) (Trin. Cambr. R.3.15) (1873) 256 We [sc. Dominicans] ben proued þe prijs of popes at Rome, And of gretest degre. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online December 2021). pricev. Inflections: Present participle pricing, (now nonstandard) priceing; Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: prize v.1 Etymology: Originally a variant of prize v.1, now usually distinguished in form in the senses below, apparently reinforced by the corresponding spelling of price n. (compare γ forms at that entry). Compare earlier praise v. and apprize v.2, and later appraise v. 1. society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > pricing > attach a price to [verb (transitive)] > set or fix price (of) 1471 in T. Thomson (1839) 11 He gert his seruand tak the said gudis and price the samyn for vnlawis ordurely as efferis. 1570 P. Levens sig. Ki/1 To Price, appreciare, æstimare. 1620 in (1907) 16 206 Item, for peutter, priced vs. 1652 in (1877) II. 108 Good~wife Howen hath chosen Elder Coleborne to price and accept of a Cow from the Towne. 1702 J. Moyle 27 In pricing medicinal preparations,..the greatest regard by far is had to the skill and pains of the Preparer. 1831 338/2 The next jeweller..will price at 10,000l..the baubles that may sell for 3,500l. 1845 J. Saunders 251 In 1504, London ale was priced 5s. a barrel more than that of Kent. 1865 G. A. Sala I. 136 The decimal monetary system has been legalised in our possessions—though the shopkeepers are given to pricing their wares in shillings and pence. 1939 D. Thomas 20 Mar. (1985) 366 The book..will be priced at 7/6. 1964 12 Mar. 8/8 Less than one-third of production in this period had so far been priced. Those prices which had been agreed were based on technical cost estimates. 1991 Oct. 84/3 An excellent introduction..covers such topics as..How to Price Records, and What is an Acetate. society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > betting > bet on [verb (transitive)] > quote odds for 1845 15 July 6/2 Of the nine horses priced, four only were in any real demand. 1881 2 May 12/1 The latter of whom, priced at 12 to 1, scarcely seemed in such high training as on the Derby Day. 1942 25 Apr. 11/4 The chief threat was Texas Ben Whitaker's Requested, winner of the $25,000 Flamingo Stakes and now priced at 5–1 in the Winter-book. 1964 2 June 10/4 Baldric II, priced at 10–1, arrived from his French training quarters Monday. 2004 (Nexis) 24 July 10 Not surprisingly, though, he looks correctly priced at around the 3–1 mark. 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ III. v. xxxix. 162 The girls' doings are always priced low. society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > fluctuation in price > [verb (transitive)] > increase (prices) > raise the price of 1904 28 Jan. 9/3 He was called into Richards's private office and instructed to have all the stock priced up. 1915 14 Feb. 8 b/5 (advt.) Responsible tire manufacturers insidiously ‘contracted the habit’ of pricing up their tires. 1943 (Women's Group on Public Welfare) ii. 58 The shop then prices up the goods in order to cover..the commission. 1976 N. Roberts xxv. 227 The [champagne] trade started pricing up its wares to restrain demand. 2004 (Nexis) 24 Jan. 16 US investors had priced up stocks so much that today's figures would have had to be truly remarkable to cause further major buying. 1918 22 Mar. 18/6 (advt.) A few choice tracts left in Gilbert Terrace... Priced to move. 1976 4 June e4 (advt.) We've priced it to move, so hurry! 2004 S. J. Urbanowicz iv. 73 All the shops offer regular price (and sometimes pricey) items alongside the items priced to move. society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > pricing > attach a price to [verb (transitive)] > overprice > eliminate by prohibitive prices 1937 28 Dec. 20/1 The monopolists, and those so near monopoly as to control their prices..by profiteering have simply priced themselves out of the market and priced themselves into a slump. 1946 Sept. 9 Many consumers were being priced right out of the market..by the accelerated rise in living costs. 1955 15 June 3/1 The country should realize that we could be easily priced out of international markets. 1975 4 Sept. 2/1 In an effort to price out [football] hooligans..most Saturday concessionary fares are being ended. 1987 W. Greider i. i. 44 Younger voters felt especially threatened by rising prices because they were afraid they would be priced out of the good life—the ability to own their own home and car. 2001 S. Heaney 36 First it was Meliboeus' people Went to the wall, now it will be us. Small farmers here are priced out of the market. 2004 8 Nov. 6/3 It's not just public employees like teachers, police officers and firefighters who are being priced out. the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > [verb (transitive)] the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > worth > [verb (transitive)] c1480 (a1400) St. John Baptist 145 in W. M. Metcalfe (1896) II. 227 For-þi suld men hym gretly price, & lowe hym in mony wyse. 1508 (Chepman & Myllar) sig. diiiiv Amang the pryncis in place peirles to price. 1561 tr. J. Calvin iii. sig. G.iiiv It is..suche a special prerogatyue as can not for ye great dignitie therof sufficiently be pryced to remaine and lyue in the churche. 1609 W. Shakespeare i. ii. 285 Men price [1623 prize] the thing vngaind more then it is. View more context for this quotation 1643 J. Burroughes (1652) 420 We have had a peace a long time and..have not priced that mercy. society > trade and finance > payment > pay money or things [verb (transitive)] > bear or defray the cost of a1513 W. Dunbar (1998) I. 137 And rype thi mynde, how euery thing befell, The tyme, the place, and how and in quhat wys, Sa that thi confessioun ma thi synnes pryce. 1590 E. Spenser i. ix. sig. I2 What iustice can but iudge against thee right, With thine owne blood to price his blood, here shed in sight? society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > fluctuation in price > [verb (transitive)] > increase (prices) > raise the price of 1533 J. Heywood sig. Cii And well it is knowen to the most foole here How rayne hath pryced corne within this .vii. yere. society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > [verb (transitive)] > enquire price of society > trade and finance > bargaining > bargain over [verb (transitive)] 1792 R. Heron tr. D. Chavis & M. Cazotte I. 193 The same sentiments carried me several times back, under the pretence of pricing or purchasing stuffs. a1845 R. H. Barham Lord of Thoulouse in (1847) 3rd Ser. 197 If you priced such a one in a drawing room here, And was ask'd fifty pounds, you'd not say it was dear. 1859 G. A. Sala (1861) 94 That glorious avenue of Covent Garden Market, where they price cucumbers at Mrs. Solomon's and bouquets at Mrs. Buck's. 1872 W. D. Howells vi. 160 The evening they spent in..pricing many things. 1901 R. Kipling x. 245 Colonel Creighton, pricing Tibetan ghost-daggers at Lurgan's shop. 1951 P. G. Wodehouse xxi. 233 This afternoon we'll go out in my jalopy and start pricing ministers. 1992 7 Dec. 76/3 After pricing a dozen service providers a year ago, the company arm-twisted its trustee to cut its fee by almost half. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
