price

See also: Price, PRICE, priče, and příce

price - English

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Pronunciation

  • (UK, US): enPR: prīs, IPA: /pɹaɪs/
  • (Canadian raising): IPA: /pɹʌɪs/

Noun

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.
  3. Value; estimation; excellence; worth.

Quotations

  • 1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn:
    • It is difficult otherwise to explain the contradictions of [Chamberlain’s] policy, his failure to grasp any of the courses that were open to him. Like the mass of the people, he did not want to pay the price either of peace or of war.

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Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To determine the monetary value of (an item); to put a price on.
  2. (transitive, obsolete) To pay the price of; to make reparation for.
  3. (transitive, obsolete) To set a price on; to value; to prize.
  4. (transitive, colloquial, dated) To ask the price of.
    • to price eggs

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price - Romanian

Noun

price f (plural prici)

  1. (dated) disagreement, argument

Declension

singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (o) price pricea (niște) prici pricile
genitive/dative (unei) prici pricii (unor) prici pricilor
vocative price, priceo pricilor
Meaning and Definition of price
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