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noun

Price n.

The sum or amount of money at which a thing is valued, or the value which a seller sets on his goods in market; that for which something is bought or sold, or offered for sale; equivalent in money or other means of exchange; current value or rate paid or demanded in market or in barter; cost. "Buy wine and milk without money and without price." "We can afford no more at such a price."

Value; estimation; excellence; worth. "Her price is far above rubies." "New treasures still, of countless price."

Reward; recompense; as, the price of industry. "'T is the price of toil, The knave deserves it when he tills the soil."

Price current, or Price list, a statement or list of the prevailing prices of merchandise, stocks, specie, bills of exchange, etc., published statedly or occasionally.

verb

Price v. t. (past & past part. priced; pres. part. pricing)

To pay the price of. (Obs.) "With thine own blood to price his blood."

To set a price on; to value. See Prize.

To ask the price of; as, to price eggs. (Colloq.)

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"Price" Quotes from Famous Books

... or six feet he equipped this with a fish-hook of his own manufacture and sallied forth toward the river. He was not only hungry, but sleepy, and it never occurred to him that this was the exorbitant price of four cigarettes. ...

— Pee-Wee Harris Adrift • Percy Keese Fitzhugh

... discovery, and of one free person employed, were highly meritorious. The senate ordered a present to the latter of a hundred thousand asses;[1] to the slaves, twenty-five thousand asses[2] each, and their freedom. The price was paid to their owners out of the treasury. Not long after, intelligence was received, that other slaves, belonging to the remains of the conspiracy, had formed a design of seizing Praeneste. The praetor, Lucius Cornelius, went thither, and inflicted punishment on near five hundred persons concerned ...

— History of Rome, Vol III • Titus Livius

... as they are unpaid, whereby he do think to take away the growing debt which do now lie upon the kingdom for lack of present money to discharge the seamen." These tickets the poor fellows sold at half price to usurers, mostly Jews; and to so great an extent was the system carried, that in the year 1710 there was a floating debt due to these usurers of ten millions paid by Harley from a fictitious fund formed by ...

— Notes and Queries, Number 237, May 13, 1854 • Various

... Martin, with an added touch of eloquence as the theme began to develop, '"for breakfast, lunch, or supper. Probably your grocer stocks them. Ask him. If he does not, write to us. Price fivepence per tin. The best ...

— The Man Upstairs and Other Stories • P. G. Wodehouse

... come to the job again that day: he had been sent by Rushton to price some work for which the firm was going to tender an estimate. There was only one person who felt any regret at his absence, and that was Mrs White—Bert's mother, who had been working at 'The Cave' for several days, scrubbing the floors. As a rule, Hunter paid her wages every night, and ...

— The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists • Robert Tressell

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