transcription, транскрипция: [ praɪs ]
( prices, pricing, priced)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
The price of something is the amount of money that you have to pay in order to buy it.
...a sharp increase in the price of petrol...
They expected house prices to rise...
Computers haven’t come down in price.
N-COUNT : usu with supp , also in N
2.
The price that you pay for something that you want is an unpleasant thing that you have to do or suffer in order to get it.
Slovenia will have to pay a high price for independence...
= penalty
N-SING : usu N for n / -ing
3.
If something is priced at a particular amount, the price is set at that amount.
The shares are expected to be priced at about 330p...
Digital priced the new line at less than half the cost of comparable mainframes...
There is a very reasonably priced menu.
VERB : be V-ed at n , V n at n , V-ed
• pric‧ing
It’s hard to maintain competitive pricing.
N-UNCOUNT
4.
see also retail price index , selling price
5.
If you want something at any price , you are determined to get it, even if unpleasant things happen as a result.
If they wanted a deal at any price, they would have to face the consequences...
PHRASE : PHR after v
6.
If you can buy something that you want at a price , it is for sale, but it is extremely expensive.
Most goods are available, but at a price.
PHRASE : PHR with cl
7.
If you get something that you want at a price , you get it but something unpleasant happens as a result.
Fame comes at a price...
PHRASE : usu PHR after v
8.
to price yourself out of the market: see market