price

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Etymology [edit]

From Middle English price (price, prize, value, excellence), from Old French pris, preis, from Latin pretium (worth, price, money spent, wages, reward), prob. akin to Ancient Greek περνάω (I sell); compare praise, prize, precious, appraise, apprize, appreciate, depreciate, etc.

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price (plural prices)

  1. The cost required to gain possession of something.
  2. The cost of an action or deed.
    • I paid a high price for my folly.

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Verb [edit]

price (third-person singular simple present prices, present participle pricing, simple past and past participle priced)

  1. To determine the monetary value of (an item), to put a price on.
  2. (obsolete) To pay the price of, to make reparation for.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.ix:
      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.
  3. (obsolete) To set a price on; to value; to prize.
  4. (colloquial, dated) To ask the price of.
    to price eggs

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