price
price (prīs)n. 1. The amount as of money or goods, asked for or given in exchange for something else. 2. The cost at which something is obtained: believes that the price of success is hard work. 3. The cost of bribing someone: maintained that every person has a price. 4. A reward offered for the capture or killing of a person: a felon with a price on his head. 5. Archaic. Value or worth.tr.v. priced, pric·ing, pric·es 1. To fix or establish a price for: shoes that are priced at sixty dollars. 2. To find out the price of: spent the day pricing dresses.Idiom:price out of the market To eliminate the demand for (goods or services) by setting prices too high. [Middle English pris, from Old French, from Latin pretium. See per-5 in Indo-European Roots.] priceʹa·ble adj.pricʹer n.
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