- price
- In.
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 (icons bring a high price)
7) to bring down prices; to undercut (smb.'s) prices (the latest news brought down oil prices)
8) to cut, lower, mark down, reduce, roll back, slash prices
9) an exorbitant, high, inflated, outrageous, prohibitive, steep, stiff price
10) an attractive, bargain, fair, low, moderate, popular, reasonable, reduced price
11) an asking; buying, purchase; discount; going; list; market; reduced; regular; resale; retail; sale; selling; unit; wholesale price
12) (at an auction) a reserve (esp. BE), upset (esp. AE) price
13) prices drop, fall, go down, slump
14) prices go up, rise, shoot up, skyrocket
15) a price for (to pay an exorbitant price for smt.)
16) at a certain price (to sell merchandise at reduced prices)
17) (misc.) what price an economic recovery now? (BE) ('what are the chances of an economic recovery now?'); what price glory if you die in the trenches? (BE) ('what is the good of glory if you die in the trenches?'); to place a price on smb.'s head ('to post a reward for apprehending or killing smb.')
IIv. (D; refl., tr.) to price out of (they priced themselves out of the market)
* * *[praɪs]hold downinflatedkeep downmaintain pricesmark downmark upprohibitiveput a price on smt.raise pricesreduced priceregularresaleroll backset a priceshoot upskyrocketslash pricessteepstiff priceto quote a priceupset (esp. AE) pricewholesale priceto place a price on smb. 's head ('to post a reward for apprehending or killing smb. ')what price glory if you die in the trenches? ('what is the good of glory if you die in the trenches?'; BE)get a price (icons bring a high price)to undercut (smb. 's) prices (the latest news brought down oil prices)an askingan attractivean exorbitantto bring down pricesto cutto fixto freezeto pay a priceto placeprices dropprices go up(misc.) what price an economic recovery now? ('what are the chances of an economic recovery now?'; BE)to hike (AE;colloq.)(at an auction) a reserve (esp. BE)(D; refl., tr.) to price out of (they priced themselves out of the market)a price for (to pay an exorbitant price for smt.)at a certain price (to sell merchandise at reduced prices)
Combinatory dictionary. 2013.