| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  pr s |
| NOUN: | 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. | | TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: 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. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English pris, from Old French, from Latin pretium. See per-5 in Appendix I. | | OTHER FORMS: | price a·ble —ADJECTIVE
pricer —NOUN
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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