price
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English price (“price, prize, value, excellence”), borrowed from Old French pris, preis, from Latin pretium (“worth, price, money spent, wages, reward”); compare praise, precious, appraise, appreciate, depreciate, etc.
Inflected forms:
form: prices
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: prize
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: prices
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pricing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: priced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: priced
pos: verb
tags: past
form: prize
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: The cost required to gain possession of something.
pos: noun
examples: We can afford no more at such a price.
My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.
gloss: The cost of an action or deed.
pos: noun
examples: I paid a high price for my folly.
It is difficult otherwise to explain the contradictions of [Chamberlain’s] policy, his failure to grasp any of the courses that were open to him. Like the mass of the people, he did not want to pay the price either of peace or of war.
gloss: Value; estimation; excellence; worth.
pos: noun
examples: Her price is far above rubies.
new treasures still, of countless price
gloss: To determine the monetary value of (an item); to put a price on.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To find out what something costs
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We priced a few laptops before deciding which one to buy.
gloss: To pay the price of; to make reparation for.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: Thou damned wight, / The author of this fact, we here behold, / What iustice can but iudge against thee right, / With thine owne bloud to price his bloud, here shed in sight.
gloss: To set a price on; to value; to prize.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
gloss: To ask the price of.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
dated
transitive
examples: to price eggs
Derived words: arm's length price
asking price
at a price
bidding price
bid price
book price
bride-price
bride price
cheap at half the price
cheap at the price
choke price
clean price
consumer price index
cost price
cross-price elasticity of demand
cut-price
death-price
equilibrium price
every man has a price
every man has his price
exercise price
fixed-price
fixed price
full price
giveaway price
half-price
hammer price
law of one price
long price
low exercise price option
market price
microprice
midprice
natural price
non-price competition
non-price
nonprice
open price
pay the price
pay the ultimate price
pearl of great price
perfect price discrimination
political price fixing
posted price
preprice
price ceiling
price-conscious
price control
price current
price-current
price cut
price-cutting
price discriminate
price discrimination
price-earnings ratio
price elasticity of demand
price elasticity of supply
price fixing
price flexing
price floor
price gouge
price gouger
price gouging
price gun
price in
price index
price is right
priceless
price level
price-lining
price list
pricelist
pricemaker
price maker
pricemaking
price match
price of admiralty
price of eggs
price of money
price of tea in China
price on someone's head
price out
price out of the market
price point
price range
price realisation
price realization
price scissors
price signal
price skimming
price stability
price tag
price tagger
price taker
price to sell
price up
price war
price-wise
pricewise
priceworthy
pricey
pricy
producer price index
quarter-up price
redemption price
retail price
sale price
sluice-gate price
sticker price
stock price
two for the price of one
two-price advertising
unit price
what does that have to do with the price of corn
what does that have to do with the price of fish
what does that have to do with the price of tea in China
what price
without price
budget-priced
misprice
outprice
overprice
priceable
pricer
reprice
underprice
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