pricenoun [ C ]
uk/praɪs/us/praɪs/A2 [ C ] the amount of money for which something is sold:
The price of oil has risen sharply.
House prices have been falling.
We thought they were asking a very high/low price.
The large supermarkets are offering big price cuts.
C1 [ S ] the unpleasant results that you must accept or experience for getting or doing something:
Perhaps being unpopular is the price of success.
An extra few minutes at the airport is a small price to pay for safe travel.
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- The price of petrol will rise by 5p a gallon from tomorrow.
- Shall I inquire about the price of tickets?
- The price of PCs has fallen recently.
- The restaurant charges shockingly high prices for its food.
- There are a couple of shops in town which sell nice clothes at affordable prices.
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Costs & expenses
- aliment
- alimony
- asking price
- carrying charge
- charge
- compensation
- corkage
- cost an arm and a leg/a small fortune idiom
- cost-of-living index
- damage
- dent
- expense
- flat rate
- indirect cost
- maintenance
- price war
- running costs
- settlement
- sticker price
- stoppage
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Idiom(s)
at any price
at/for a price
not at any price
what price...?
priceverb
uk/praɪs/us/praɪs/C1 [ T often passive ] to say what the price of something is:
The car is priced at £28,000.
There is a lack of reasonably priced housing for rent.
[ T ] to discover how much something costs:
We went around all the travel agents pricing the different tours.
More examples
- competitively priced goods
- The company makes and retails moderately priced sportswear.
- I bought a reasonably priced radio.
- We've been pricing new kitchens.
- I think you need to price things slightly lower if you want to get rid of them quickly.
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Estimating value
- appraise
- appraiser
- cost
- costing
- est
- estimate
- figure
- get/have your money's worth idiom
- goodwill
- index
- index of leading economic indicators
- index-linked
- indexation
- money
- put
- put a figure on it idiom
- RRP
- underestimate
- valuer
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Idiom(s)
price yourself out of the market