noun
definition
The cost required to gain possession of something.
definition
The cost of an action or deed.
example
I paid a high price for my folly.
definition
Value; estimation; excellence; worth.
verb
definition
To determine the monetary value of (an item); to put a price on.
definition
To pay the price of; to make reparation for.
definition
To set a price on; to value; to prize.
definition
To ask the price of.
example
to price eggs
Examples of price in a Sentence
Then they all agree to set the price per flip at $1,000.
But what a price to pay!
The price of such hardware is in free fall.
You had to pay the price for it, and so did I.
What's your price range?
You've paid a dear price for this thing.
He asked the price and paid for it.
And she now knew what price she'd have to pay for her micro.
Their unknowing company at his meal was well worth the price of the charge.
Suddenly, she was afraid she'd be tempted to pay whatever price he demanded, no matter how high.
It is their duty, and a price that must be paid.
For the right price, I will assist any of them get home.
She pays the price for my assistance.
She was surprised she could walk at all and knew a few ounces of blood had been a small price to pay for Lankha's work, which she'd never have gotten for all the money in the world at home.
I hope you charged him full price.
That would be like the price of a Mercedes falling from $50,000 to a nickel.
I know it's a high price.
I didn't want the silly picture anyway, and the price was right.
Hugh Price Hughes and Mark Guy Pearse began the West London Mission.
He must have men and money for this purpose even at the price of an arrangement with the Protestants.
The last demanded that the peasants should be freed from the payment to the state, which represented the purchase price for the remission of feudal burdens.
But the price of the tractor would have plummeted, for a constellation of reasons.
Vacationing should fall in price but requires much direct labor, so it will not fall by a thousandfold.
And that fact is driven home by its generally low price in most locations.
Even at the retail price, we could feed all the world's hungry for a billion dollars a day or $365 billion a year.
If this sounds absurd, at present it is—but in the future, the price of technologies to do this will fall to nearly zero.
Here is a hogshead of molasses or of brandy directed to John Smith, Cuttingsville, Vermont, some trader among the Green Mountains, who imports for the farmers near his clearing, and now perchance stands over his bulkhead and thinks of the last arrivals on the coast, how they may affect the price for him, telling his customers this moment, as he has told them twenty times before this morning, that he expects some by the next train of prime quality.
You know you could name your price.
Quinn quipped it would be worth the price of the car if she kept motoring north to Canada and out of our lives.
She shuddered to her core at the evil peering through his gaze, feeling very much like the devil was offering her a deal without telling her the price.
You could have saved the price of staying at Bird Song.
And, Dean thought, the price is the same—free.
When you're hungry and someone offers a meal, maybe you start rationalizing the price you're paying and start playing by a different set of rules.
Parking wasn't a problem if you didn't mind paying the price of a good country dinner, but Dean didn't have time to hunt down a bargain so he reluctantly pulled into the closest lot.
After paying the check he maneuvered the wobbly woman up the stairs while she chatted merrily about the meal, the weather and the price of steak.
All he remembered was Ethel Rosewater's bra size and the price of beer at Delaney's Market.
When the ad was pulled from the paper, the seller told the clerk he had just had a cash sale for his asking price.
You gave them a fair price...
Finding it and turning it over was a small price to pay to get out of the bind she was in.
The upset (reserve) price was go sterling per square league of 6669 acres, and, as the lands were quickly sold, an expansion of the pastoral industry immediately ensued.
To check these prejudicial fluctuations and to prevent too great a fall in the price of gold (to repeat a popular misconception), a £42,297,050 30,395,916 11,763,923 £ 84,456,889 £IO,178,718 05,$24,375,067 gold,.
The satisfactory price obtained during recent years has enabled renewed attention to be paid to copper mining in South Australia, and the production of the metal in 1905 was valued at £470,324.
In order to keep down the expense of shunting the empty trains and engines to and from the platforms the carriage and locomotive depots should be as near the passenger station as possible; but often the price of land renders it impracticable to locate them in the immediate vicinity and they are to be found at a distance of several miles.
From 1861 onwards a series of measures were passed, all designed to maintain the high price of grain.
If the ordinary price is more than this, the surplus part will naturally go to the rent of the land.
Simple. Because of Darkyn's bitch, I've got a price on my head from the Dark One.
Looks like you can buy one for about ten bucks unless some late bidder jumps in and kicks up the price.
But, please, I'll pay whatever you feel is a fair price.
Added to that was Fred's frequent lies about picking up at tag sales for a pittance, items that to an observant eye, still retained their much-higher new-store price.
It's a cash sale – just as soon as we come to an agreement on the price.