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Price
n.
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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.
We can afford no more at such a price.
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Value; estimation; excellence; worth.
Her price is far above rubies.
New treasures still, of countless price.
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Reward; recompense; as, the price of industry.
'T is the price of toil, The knave deserves it when he tills the soil.
Phrases & Compounds
- Price current
- a statement or list of the prevailing prices of merchandise, stocks, specie, bills of exchange, etc., published statedly or occasionally.
Price
v. t.
imp. & p. p. Priced; p. pr. & vb. n. Pricing
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To pay the price of. [Obs.]
With thine own blood to price his blood.
- To set a price on; to value. See Prize.
- To ask the price of; as, to price eggs. [Colloq.]