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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2025
price /praɪs/USA pronunciation   n., v., priced, pric•ing. 
n. [countable]
  1. the sum of money for which anything is bought, sold, or offered for sale:Our prices will beat the competition's.
  2. a sum offered for the capture of a person alive or dead:to put a price on his head.
  3. an amount of money for which a person will abandon morals, principles, etc.:Every man has his price.
  4. that which must be given, done, or suffered through in order to obtain a thing:We won the battle, but at a heavy price: 3,000 dead.

v. [~ + object]
  1. to fix the price of:He priced the paintings at about $3,000 each.
  2. to ask or find out the price of:He went around pricing computers at different stores.
Idioms
  1. Idioms at any price, at any cost, no matter how great:He wanted to win the election at any price.

See -preci-.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025
price  (prīs),USA pronunciation n., v., priced, pric•ing. 
n. 
  1. the sum or amount of money or its equivalent for which anything is bought, sold, or offered for sale.
  2. a sum offered for the capture of a person alive or dead:The authorities put a price on his head.
  3. the sum of money, or other consideration, for which a person's support, consent, etc., may be obtained, esp. in cases involving sacrifice of integrity:They claimed that every politician has a price.
  4. that which must be given, done, or undergone in order to obtain a thing:He gained the victory, but at a heavy price.
  5. odds (def. 2).
  6. [Archaic.]value or worth.
  7. [Archaic.]great value or worth (usually prec. by of ).
  8. Idioms at any price, at any cost, no matter how great:Their orders were to capture the town at any price.
  9. Idioms beyond or without price, of incalculable value;
    priceless:The crown jewels are beyond price.

v.t. 
  1. to fix the price of.
  2. to ask or determine the price of:We spent the day pricing furniture at various stores.
  • Middle French prisier, derivative of pris, Old French as above; see prize2, praise
  • Latin pretium price, value, worth (compare precious); (verb, verbal) late Middle English prisen
  • Old French
  • (noun, nominal) Middle English pris(e) 1175–1225
price′a•ble, adj. 
    • 1, 4.See corresponding entry in Unabridged Price, charge, cost, expense refer to outlay or expenditure required in buying or maintaining something.
      Price is used mainly of single, concrete objects offered for sale; charge, of services:What is the price of that coat? There is a small charge for mailing packages.Cost is mainly a purely objective term, often used in financial calculations:The cost of building a new annex was estimated at $10,000.Expense suggests cost plus incidental expenditure:The expense of the journey was more than the contemplated cost.Only charge is not used figuratively.
      Price, cost, and sometimes expense may be used to refer to the expenditure of mental energy, what one "pays'' in anxiety, suffering, etc.
Price  (prīs),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. Biographical Bruce, 1845–1903, U.S. architect.
  2. Biographical (Edward) Reynolds, born 1933, U.S. novelist.
    3. (Mary) Le•on•tyne  (lē′ən tēn′),USA pronunciation born 1927, U.S. soprano.
  3. a male given name.

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
price / praɪs/
  1. the sum in money or goods for which anything is or may be bought or sold
  2. the cost at which anything is obtained
  3. the cost of bribing a person
  4. a sum of money offered or given as a reward for a capture or killing
  5. value or worth, esp high worth
  6. another word for odds
  7. at any price ⇒ whatever the price or cost
  8. at a price ⇒ at a high price
  9. what price something? ⇒ what are the chances of something happening now?
 (transitive)
  1. to fix or establish the price of
  2. to ascertain or discover the price of
  3. price out of the market ⇒ to charge so highly for as to prevent the sale, hire, etc, of
Etymology: 13th Century pris, from Old French, from Latin pretium price, value, wageˈpricer
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