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Price

noun

The property of having material worth (often indicated by the amount of money something would bring if sold). Synonyms: cost, monetary value. "He puts a high price on his services" , "He couldn't calculate the cost of the collection"

The amount of money needed to purchase something. Synonyms: damage, terms. "He got his new car on excellent terms" , "How much is the damage?"

Value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something. Synonyms: cost, toll. "The price of success is hard work" , "What price glory?"

The high value or worth of something.

A monetary reward for helping to catch a criminal.

Cost of bribing someone.

United States operatic soprano (born 1927). Synonyms: Leontyne Price, Mary Leontyne Price.

verb

(past & past part. priced; pres. part. pricing)

Determine the price of.

Ascertain or learn the price of.

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"Price" Quotes from Famous Books

... through the gallery, and there was one thing that caught my fancy; I kept going back to it again and again. It was a bit of sea-coast by Ewart Merry,—do you know him? He died years ago; his pictures fetch a fairly good price now. As I was looking at it, the fellow who managed the show came up with a man and woman to talk about another picture near me; he tried his hardest to persuade them to buy, but they wouldn't, and I dare say it disturbed his temper. Seeing him stand there alone, I stepped up to him, and ...

— The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories • George Gissing

... with a paper-knife in the form of an angel with long slender wings raised over its head and meeting to form a point. Its price was twenty francs, and she was strongly tempted to buy it for Clover or Rose Red. But she said to herself sensibly, "This is the first shop I have been into and the first thing I have really wanted to buy, and very ...

— What Katy Did Next • Susan Coolidge

... the altar of your accursed sport. There is nothing to prevent your going on with it. You will go on no doubt till you tire of the chase. And then your turn will come. You will find yourself alone among the ruins, and you will pay the price. You may repent then—but repentance sometimes ...

— Greatheart • Ethel M. Dell

... brooding on that thought. And when they grow up, it may be hard to provide for them. The little thing that is sitting on your knee may before many years be alone in life, thousands of miles from you and from his early home, an insignificant item in the bitter price which Britain pays for her Indian Empire. It is even possible, though you hardly for a moment admit that thought, that the child may turn out a heartless and wicked man, and prove your shame and heartbreak: all wicked and heartless men have been the children of somebody; and many of them, ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 7, No. 43, May, 1861 • Various

... evening's reception. There was to be an official repast, followed by a soiree. She had nothing to concern herself about in regard to the menu; Chevet undertook that. For the ministerial dinners there was a fixed price as in restaurants. Hosts and guests live au cabaret, they dine at so much a head. Adrienne endeavored to occupy herself with the musical soiree, with the programmes that they brought her, with ...

— His Excellency the Minister • Jules Claretie

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