price
verb/praɪs/
/praɪs/
Verb Forms
Idioms | present simple I / you / we / they price | /praɪs/ /praɪs/ |
| he / she / it prices | /ˈpraɪsɪz/ /ˈpraɪsɪz/ |
| past simple priced | /praɪst/ /praɪst/ |
| past participle priced | /praɪst/ /praɪst/ |
| -ing form pricing | /ˈpraɪsɪŋ/ /ˈpraɪsɪŋ/ |
- [transitive, usually passive, intransitive] to fix the price of something at a particular level
- be priced + adv./prep. The main courses are all reasonably priced.
- These goods are priced too high.
- Their printers are competitively priced.
- be priced at something The tickets are priced at $100 each.
- price + adv./prep. A dominant firm will price aggressively in markets where it faces new competitors.
Extra ExamplesTopics Businessb2, Moneyb2- It has a much longer battery life than other comparatively priced laptops.
- The kits are priced from £8.50 to £20.
- Tickets for the concert are priced between £15 and £35.
- This is considered a luxury item and is priced accordingly.
- a wide range of competitively priced office furniture
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- exorbitantly
- highly
- outrageously
- …
- at
- between
- from
- …
- be priced high
- be priced low
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- price something (up) to write or stick tickets on goods to show how much they costTopics Businessb2
- price something to compare the prices of different types of the same thing
- We priced various models before buying this one.
Word OriginMiddle English: the noun from Old French pris, from Latin pretium ‘value, reward’; the verb, a variant (by assimilation to the noun) of earlier prise ‘estimate the value of’ (see prize). Compare with praise.
Idioms
See price in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee price in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic Englishprice yourself/something out of the market
- to charge such a high price for your goods, services, etc. that nobody wants to buy them
- Some leading UK firms are pricing themselves out of the market.
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