Price meaning
Price means the cost or the amount at which something is valued.
An example of a price is $1 for three cookies.
noun
The amount as of money or goods, asked for or given in exchange for something else.
noun
To put a price on; fix the price of.
verb
The cost of bribing someone.
Maintained that every person has a price.
noun
A reward offered for the capture or killing of a person.
A felon with a price on his head.
noun
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Value or worth.
noun
To fix or establish a price for.
Shoes that are priced at sixty dollars.
verb
To find out the price of.
Spent the day pricing dresses.
verb
The amount of money, etc. asked or paid for something; cost; charge.
noun
A reward for the capture or death of a person.
noun
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Money or other consideration sufficient to be a bribe or inducement.
noun
The cost, as in life, labor, sacrifice, etc., of obtaining some benefit or advantage.
noun
To ask or find out the price of.
verb
1927- ; U.S. operatic soprano.
proper name
Price is defined as to put a cost on something, or find out a cost.
An example of price is to research different costs for a car.
verb
The cost at which something is obtained.
Believes that the price of success is hard work.
noun
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Value or worth.
noun
price out of the market
- To eliminate the demand for (goods or services) by setting prices too high.
idiom
at any price
- No matter what the cost.
idiom
beyond price
- Priceless; invaluable.
idiom
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.
idiom
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Idioms and Phrasal Verbs
Origin of price
- 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