to put a price to

  • 21price — [[t]pra͟ɪs[/t]] ♦ prices, pricing, priced 1) N COUNT: usu with supp, also in N The price of something is the amount of money that you have to pay in order to buy it. ...a sharp increase in the price of petrol... They expected house prices to rise …

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  • 22price — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun ADJECTIVE ▪ exorbitant, high, inflated, prohibitive, steep ▪ They charge exorbitant prices for their goods. ▪ The price of fuel is prohibitive …

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  • 23price — I n. 1) to fix, set a price 2) to hike (AE; colloq.), increase, mark up, raise prices 3) to freeze; hold down, keep down; maintain prices 4) to pay a price 5) to place, put a price on smt.; to quote a price 6) bring, command, fetch, get a price… …

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  • 24price — price1 [ praıs ] noun *** 1. ) count the amount of money that you have to pay in order to buy something: They charge the same prices in all their restaurants. The cameras range in price from $150 to over $600. The price per person goes down for… …

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  • 25put */*/*/ — UK [pʊt] / US verb [transitive] Word forms put : present tense I/you/we/they put he/she/it puts present participle putting past tense put past participle put 1) a) to move something to a particular position, especially using your hands She put… …

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  • 26price tag — noun a tag showing the price of the article it is attached to • Hypernyms: ↑tag, ↑ticket * * * price tag, 1. a tag ticket marked with the price of the article to which it is attached. 2. Informal, Figurative. an estimated worth or cost; value:… …

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  • 27price — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Something demanded in exchange Nouns 1. price, amount, cost, expense, prime cost, charge, figure, demand; fare, hire, bill, tab, rental; overhead, carrying charge or cost; rent charge, rackrent,… …

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  • 28Price ceiling — A price ceiling is a government imposed limit on how high a price can be charged on a product. For a price ceiling to be effective, it must differ from the free market price. In the graph at right, the supply and demand curves intersect to… …

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  • 29price — priceable, adj. /pruys/, n., v., priced, pricing. 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… …

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  • 30price — [[t]praɪs[/t]] n. v. priced, pric•ing 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: to put a price on someone s head[/ex] 3) an… …

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