price
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See also Price
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[edit] Etymology
< Middle English price (“‘price, prize, value, excellence’”) < Old French pris, preis < Latin pretium (“‘worth, price, money spent, wages, reward’”), prob. akin to Greek περνάναι (“‘to sell’”); cf. praise, prize, precious, appraise, apprize, appreciate, depreciate, etc.
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price (plural prices)
- The cost required to gain possession of something.
- The cost of an action or deed.
- I paid a high price for my folly.
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cost required to gain possession of something
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cost of an action or deed
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[edit] Verb
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to price (third-person singular simple present prices, present participle pricing, simple past and past participle priced)
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determine or put a price on something
[edit] External links
- price in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- price in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
