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Definition of price in English:

price

noun prʌɪspraɪs
  • 1The amount of money expected, required, or given in payment for something.

    价格,价钱

    land could be sold for a high price

    土地可以卖个高价。

    house prices have fallen
    mass noun large cars are dropping in price
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Expect prices to range from crosstown cab fare to a few hundred bucks.
    • Crude oil prices have risen about 50 % since the start of the year (chart).
    • House prices are an important factor in the economy in Britain, where most families own their own homes.
    • Farmers are now expecting prices to lift by an equivalent amount.
    • Hotels reduce rates, airfare prices drop and vacation packages may be hundreds less.
    • Rising fuel prices are cutting into all incomes particularly for farmers.
    • They are expected to cut prices and accept lower profit margins.
    • It's extremely strange to me that you could expect the same price in every market.
    • With foreign onions flooding the market, he cannot expect a fair price for his produce.
    • Mr Ellis said that with little prospect of a substantial rise in interest rates, house prices were expected to continue increasing.
    • It may be a loose button or a caught thread, but these will take you time to repair and it means the item is not of the standard required by the purchase price.
    • This could mean a significant amount of money, since diamond prices leap at certain popular sizes.
    • By law, all publicans are required to display their prices and can be fined for charging more than advertised.
    • Retailers expected the price to vary less as regular shipping of US beef is slated to start in mid May.
    • The bank's share price also went up by 3.6 per cent to 1223 pence.
    • Wages and prices fall in money terms, but the nominal value of debt remains unchanged.
    • He said there is a definite price drop in the price of three-bedroom semi-detached houses.
    • Crude oil prices have been steadily rising since the late 1990s.
    • The best solution is a controlling body under the Government for ensuring a reasonable price for all agricultural produce.
    • In fact, market efficiency does not require prices to be equal to fair value all of the time.
    Synonyms
    cost, asking price, selling price, charge, fee, terms, payment, rate, fare, levy, toll, amount, sum, total, figure
    worth, (monetary) value
    outlay, expense, expenses, expenditure, bill
    valuation, quotation, estimate
    informal damage
    1. 1.1 The odds in betting.
      投注赔率
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Displayed wager prices are updated in real time as price changes occur.
      • York shops took scores of smaller wagers at prices ranging right down to 10 / 1.
      • So if you can't find a runner at a square price to bet against these horses, simply pass on the race entirely.
      • Generally speaking, the online bookmakers give the best betting prices to the public.
      • Yet it was clear that Wintle had not cheated - the horse had run on its dubious merits each time, as its price in the betting market showed.
    2. 1.2archaic mass noun Value; worth.
      〈古〉价值
      the parable of the pearl of great price

      有关高贵珍珠的寓言。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Next was led the King's horse for that day, together with his son's; the King's saddle and furniture most richly beset with stones of great price and beauty.
      • The King, after a great many signs and tokens of grace and favour, took from his own neck a jewel of great price, with the picture of Philip, his father, on the one side, and his own on the other.
      Synonyms
      value, financial value, monetary value, asking price, selling price, cost
  • 2An unwelcome experience or action undergone or done as a condition of achieving an objective.

    〈喻〉代价

    the price of their success was an entire day spent in discussion

    他们用了一整天的讨论换来了成功。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He considered indignity a small price to pay if he could continue to provide for them.
    • For the majority, however, signing away moral rights is likely to become the unwelcome price of doing business.
    • They are keen to pay the price of Wang's success, not only because he is a winner but because the sport needs him.
    • And it will clarify how you'd even be willing to pay the price of pain to achieve it!
    • That player may also pay a high price for success by destroying many other aspects to his life.
    • This wrenching experience may be bearable when it is the price to be paid for development.
    • But surely one year of disappointment is a small price to pay for the long-term future of York Wasps.
    • You pay a price, I'm sure, but the experiences and stories within you are endless.
    • But for many moms, the downsides are a small price to pay for the increased time they get to spend at home.
    • Maynard says the sacrifices are a small price to pay for the rewards.
    • Perhaps the price of experience is that nothing seems strange any more.
    • We owe it to those who bore the burden and paid the price before us, and we also owe it to those who will come after us.
    • France desperately needed to reduce the scale of her military commitments, and the crown was prepared to pay a heavy price to achieve this.
    • You must be willing to pay the price to pursue and to achieve your goal.
    • Yes, yes, yes, the road ahead may be a difficult one and the price to be paid may be high, they said.
    • Curtailing innocent kids' rights to go where they've no business and are universally unwelcome is a small price to pay for some peace.
    • But it quickly became apparent that James has paid a high price for his success.
    • Wallace often looks sheepish when admitting that his family has paid the price of his political success.
    • He didn't tell us that even after paying such a heavy price, success was far from assured.
    • One pays a heavy price under contemporary conditions for clinging onto that sort of conception.
    Synonyms
    consequence, result, cost, toll, penalty, sacrifice, forfeit, forfeiture
    downside, snag, drawback, disadvantage, minus
    trial, torment, bane, tribulation, affliction, suffering, burden, trouble, worry, deprivation, undesirable consequence
    British disbenefit
verb prʌɪspraɪs
[with object]
  • 1Decide the amount required as payment for (something offered for sale)

    为…定价

    the watches are priced at £55

    这一类手表定价为14.50英镑。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • John Rohan Auctioneers is handling the sale of this property which is priced at £220,000.
    • Sea tours are usually priced at a reasonable rate for tourists and can be found almost anywhere!
    • Ashmore said houses sold as long as they were priced at sensible levels.
    • The new car is due to go on sale here in ten days' time, priced at £84,000.
    • Apartments are priced at three rates, depending on the rental guarantees attached.
    • The books are priced at $29.95 and are on sale at most local bookstores and outlets.
    • Also pictured is the Kennedy coffee table with drawers which is priced at £1,495.
    • A rebate of 10 per cent is being offered on the artwork that is priced at Rs.4,640.
    • The full colour magazine is published by Bairds in Antrim on a quarterly basis, and priced at €4.50.
    • The soft drinks meant for export were priced at a cheaper rate that those for internal sale, and were not subject to VAT.
    • Rank shares are priced at 290p, a valuation of 12 times prospective earnings for this year.
    • This is a world where information is freely available or priced at fair market value rates.
    • My favourite part in their books is the lore on rare books, how to identify a First Ed and what classic Modern Firsts are priced at.
    • One of the houses is the show unit and is priced at €197,500 including all furniture and fittings.
    • The 200 year history in Australia has largely been that water has been priced at the cost of producing it.
    • Tickets are now on sale from any of the committee members and are priced at £10.00.
    • One barrier had been that most customers were paying for time spent online, whereas broadband is priced at a flat rate on a monthly basis.
    • There are some companies we think are still priced at attractive rates and have the ability to grow their earnings.
    • Get in contact with the real estate professionals in a different area to find property that is priced at a lower rate.
    • Many of these icon wines are very flavourful and pleasant, and if they were priced at their true worth they would be justifiable.
    Synonyms
    fix/set the price of, put a price on, cost, value, rate, evaluate, assess, estimate, appraise, assay
    1. 1.1 Attach price labels or tickets to (an item for sale).
      给(商品)贴标价签
      Example sentencesExamples
      • If using labels to price items, write the price clearly and make them easy to find.
      • The items were priced up with identical labels and packed in identical carrier bags.
  • 2Discover or establish the price of (something for sale).

    调查(待售商品的)价格;确定(待售商品的)价格

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Consider this an asset sale, priced at the cost of the estimated market value of the land.
    • This guide will help price items for a garage sale or yard sale.
    • Nancy Moore checks out a Church of the Cross ornament Thursday while pricing items for the bazaar.
    • She believed it to be a modest hovel, although many of the items she had acquired over the years were priced at a point many would gasp at.

Phrases

  • at any price

    • No matter what expense or difficulty is involved.

      不惜任何代价;无论如何

      they wanted peace at any price

      他们为了和平不惜任何代价。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • He remained hopeful that the state telecom would be sold by the end of the year but he reiterated that would not be done at any price.
      • If you are determined to go at any price, though, there's still a chance as a few tickets are going to be held back and auctioned off.
      • It's difficult to resist the feeling that some ideas have been dreamed up by scientists desperate to make a name for themselves at any price.
      • For those who are still adamant to return to their old villages at any price, there are hard conditions.
      • History is littered with examples of ill-conceived attempts to keep the peace at any price.
      • However, he favored orchid collectors as his customers since they would buy a new hybrid or rare genus of orchid at any price.
      • They wanted to reach the top at any price, literally starving and slaving to find success and fame.
      • The rule of law must not and cannot be compromised at any price or for any reason.
      • The airport is crowded with people clamoring for a seat at any price.
      • The statesman's maxim shall be peace, and peace at any price.
      Synonyms
      whatever the price, whatever the cost, at whatever cost, no matter the cost, no matter what the cost, cost what it may, regardless
  • at a price

    • Requiring great expense or involving unwelcome consequences.

      以高价;以很高代价

      his generosity comes at a price

      他为慷慨付出很高代价。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Peace comes at a price and is not the natural order of things.
      • While it is an honour for any town to have been given host town status, this honour has come at a price.
      • When the scheme is up and running, quality water will be on tap, but at a price.
      • So long as you realise that convenience comes at a price, then by all means take the easy way out.
      • It's true natural wilderness, with a peace of spiritual proportions, but it comes at a price.
      • It was, he admits, a dream performance for him, but it was achieved at a price.
      • But if her autobiography is anything to go by, her success has come at a price.
      • Learning, dear reader, comes at a price, like everything else that life has to offer the common man.,
      • Trouble is, the freedom to publish, it appears, now comes at a price - that which I cannot afford to pay.
      • The company had an excellent staff retention rate, but rapid expansion came at a price.
      Synonyms
      at a high cost, at a high price, at considerable cost, for a great deal of money
  • beyond (or without) price

    • So valuable that no price can be stated.

      极其珍贵的,无价的,千金难买的

      the memories they shared were beyond price
      Example sentencesExamples
      • That she completed the course gave her an emotional gift beyond price.
      • The mementoes and film were beyond price - yet useless to anyone else.
      • ‘You are,’ my mother would say, ‘the queen of the world, the jewel of the lotus, the pearl without price, my secret treasure.’
      • The rewards for being a family physician are often without price.
      • Most people who found a faded suitcase in the attic would probably consider it worthless, but for Michel Levi-Leleu, the Frenchman claiming the relic, it is beyond price.
      • What you will gain is your people's confidence in your fairness and honesty, an asset beyond price to a manager.
      • After all, the integrity of the nation's economic statistics gathering institutions is beyond price: Many thousands of businesspeople use those statistics as a resource every day.
      • We've also learned people are more important than things; good neighbours, friends and relatives are without price; and memories are more important than possessions.
      • But what people value and the way that they interact with a product goes beyond price.
      • He never complained about dialysis, arguing that the months gained were beyond price, beyond inconvenience.
      Synonyms
      of incalculable value, of incalculable worth, of inestimable value, of inestimable worth, of immeasurable value, of immeasurable worth, invaluable, priceless, without price, worth its weight in gold, worth a king's ransom
  • a price on someone's head

    • A reward offered for someone's capture or death.

      缉拿(或杀死)某人的赏金

      he had to flee with a price on his head
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Furthermore, there is a price on his head, dead or alive.
      • When Tommy kills a couple of Randall's gang, prompting the town bully to put a price on his head, Will abandons everything he's spent his life building to ride off with his brother.
      • She didn't doubt that there was a price on her head, but she'd do everything in her power to keep it from ever being collected.
      • ‘There's a price on his head so high I've thought of turning him in myself,’ she joked while reaching for her water goblet.
      • Speaking from an undisclosed location, the rebel leader, who carries a price on his head, said the King had closed all doors for negotiations with his action.
      • But though there was a price on Angus Dubh 's head - enough to keep a tell-tale in luxury for the rest of his wretched life - none had broken silence.
      • He encounters Red Indians, who give him a wife and a new name, Man Who Fights In Dress, later catching up with O'Bannon, with whom he joins forces, riding to Culver City with a price on his head.
      • There was already a price on his head for thievery.
      • Even the unassuming Woolyford had a price on his head - but in comparison, Cord Roy's was the biggest (if it were combined with the rest of his gang).
      • She had known she had a price on her head, known she was wanted by the City.
      Synonyms
      reward, bounty, premium
  • price oneself out of the market

    • Become unable to compete commercially.

      (因索价高)失去市场竞争力

      as supermodels price themselves out of the market, actresses are ready to negotiate terms
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He says vacancies are up because rent decontrol allowed landlords to raise rents once tenants left, until they virtually priced themselves out of the market.
      • Property has practically priced itself out of the market at this stage, with the spectre of oversupply looming in many towns around the country and prices still surging forward.
      • When it comes to food and beverages we are pricing ourselves out of the market when we must be competitive.
      • Tourism is off, and tourism officials have warned restaurants and hotels they risk pricing themselves out of the market…
      • In a glut of greed, some owners were literally pricing themselves out of the market.
      • We simply cannot afford to price ourselves out of the market,’ he said.
      • Coastal property is flatlining after pricing itself out of the market, and rising crime and overcrowding are also conspiring to drive buyers inland.
      • Soaring cinema ticket costs mean Colchester's Odeon is pricing itself out of the market, a movie buff has claimed.
      • The study suggested that in a number of cases, contractors who pay their workers the minimum wage actually price themselves out of the market in many sectors, particularly agricultural and construction work.
      • People should also remember that even though the general public are willing to pay for peace of mind, a time will come when any organisation can price itself out of the market, no matter what service it is offering.
  • put a price on

    • Determine the value of.

      给…定价

      you can't put a price on what she has to offer

      你无法对她所给予的定价。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • We provide children in the area with a social life and you cannot put a price on that, but we are so short of cash.
      • Together with wife Kathryn he has just moved from a modern penthouse flat to a more private detached split-level house, with a neatly tended garden and a panoramic view of the sea you couldn't put a price on.
      • ‘Victor's eye test was free because his family has a history of glaucoma but the cost of an eye test is only £14 and you can't put a price on your eyesight,’ she said.
      • The first time you save a life is something you cannot put a price on or put into words.
      • It's hard to put a price on beauty, but property values of homes whose landscapes include mature trees are 5 to 20 percent higher than those without them.
      • Yes, money is tight, but you can't put a price on all the joy she gives me.
      • They will get back the purchase price plus legal costs, but the turmoil it has caused is hard to put a price on.
      • That's the guardian angel, that's worth everything - you can't put a price on that.
      • You can't put a price on the embarrassment when you are sitting in the auditorium during a performance and your phone rings.
      • There is one thing that money can't put a price on and that is friends and family.
      Synonyms
      fix the price of, set the price of, put a price on, cost, value, rate, evaluate, assess, estimate, appraise, assay
  • what price —?

    • 1Used to ask what has become of something or to suggest that something has or would become worthless.

      (用于询问)情况如何;(暗示)有什么用处;算什么东西

      what price justice if he were allowed to go free?

      如果让他逍遥法外,那还有什么公正可言?

      Example sentencesExamples
      • But what price his reputation if it had to rest alone on the output of that wilderness period?
      • I also addressed the Post Workers' Union meeting at St George's Hall in the company of Coun Margaret Eaton and Marsha Singh MP - what price that effort.
      • With the countryside slathered in chemicals and the parks sanitised in the name of ‘safety’, what price our ‘heritage’?
      • So what price the trust in this company, which has enjoyed the residue of much mutual goodwill built up over generations?
    • 2Used to state that something seems unlikely.

      what price cricket at the Olympics?

      板球进奥运会的胜算如何?

      Example sentencesExamples
      • And what price the chancellor actually assisting in the purchase of all these crofts by giving top-rate taxpayers cash incentives to buy up the properties?
      • And if our political leaders fail to set a firm example, what price the fashion industry itself?
      • Still, they give the papers concerned a chance to bash the government, so what price accuracy?
      • If even animals can't feel welcome and at home in Caledonia stern and wild, what price people?

Derivatives

  • pricer

  • noun
    • For the moment, the prices are recorded on paper and keypunched into computers, although pricers will get touch-screen laptops later this year.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Furthermore, nothing has changed about the fact that price must cover costs and earn the pricer's organization a profit.

Origin

Middle English: the noun from Old French pris, from Latin pretium 'value, reward'; the verb, a variant (by assimilation to the noun) of earlier prise 'estimate the value of' (see prize1). Compare with praise.

  • The medieval word pris, which was from Old French, meant not only ‘price’ but also ‘prize’ and ‘praise’. Over time these three meanings split into three different words. Pris became price, and the meaning ‘praise’ started to be spelled preise and then praise. Originally simply an alternative way of spelling price, prize too became a separate word. The Latin original of the French was pretiem ‘price’ which also lies behind appreciate (mid 18th century), and the related appraise (mid 16th century) and apprize (mid 16th century), all with the basic sense of ‘set a price to’; depreciate (mid 17th century); and precious (Middle English).

Rhymes

advice, bice, Brice, choc ice, concise, dice, entice, gneiss, ice, imprecise, lice, mice, nice, precise, rice, sice, slice, speiss, spice, splice, suffice, syce, thrice, top-slice, trice, twice, underprice, vice, Zeiss

Definition of price in US English:

price

nounprīspraɪs
  • 1The amount of money expected, required, or given in payment for something.

    价格,价钱

    land could be sold for a high price

    土地可以卖个高价。

    a wide selection of tools varying in price

    品种繁多价格各异的工具。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Expect prices to range from crosstown cab fare to a few hundred bucks.
    • By law, all publicans are required to display their prices and can be fined for charging more than advertised.
    • It may be a loose button or a caught thread, but these will take you time to repair and it means the item is not of the standard required by the purchase price.
    • This could mean a significant amount of money, since diamond prices leap at certain popular sizes.
    • It's extremely strange to me that you could expect the same price in every market.
    • The best solution is a controlling body under the Government for ensuring a reasonable price for all agricultural produce.
    • The bank's share price also went up by 3.6 per cent to 1223 pence.
    • Farmers are now expecting prices to lift by an equivalent amount.
    • Rising fuel prices are cutting into all incomes particularly for farmers.
    • Wages and prices fall in money terms, but the nominal value of debt remains unchanged.
    • House prices are an important factor in the economy in Britain, where most families own their own homes.
    • With foreign onions flooding the market, he cannot expect a fair price for his produce.
    • Crude oil prices have risen about 50 % since the start of the year (chart).
    • In fact, market efficiency does not require prices to be equal to fair value all of the time.
    • Hotels reduce rates, airfare prices drop and vacation packages may be hundreds less.
    • They are expected to cut prices and accept lower profit margins.
    • He said there is a definite price drop in the price of three-bedroom semi-detached houses.
    • Mr Ellis said that with little prospect of a substantial rise in interest rates, house prices were expected to continue increasing.
    • Crude oil prices have been steadily rising since the late 1990s.
    • Retailers expected the price to vary less as regular shipping of US beef is slated to start in mid May.
    Synonyms
    cost, asking price, selling price, charge, fee, terms, payment, rate, fare, levy, toll, amount, sum, total, figure
    1. 1.1 The odds in betting.
      投注赔率
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Yet it was clear that Wintle had not cheated - the horse had run on its dubious merits each time, as its price in the betting market showed.
      • So if you can't find a runner at a square price to bet against these horses, simply pass on the race entirely.
      • Displayed wager prices are updated in real time as price changes occur.
      • York shops took scores of smaller wagers at prices ranging right down to 10 / 1.
      • Generally speaking, the online bookmakers give the best betting prices to the public.
    2. 1.2archaic Value; worth.
      〈古〉价值
      a pearl of great price

      有关高贵珍珠的寓言。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • The King, after a great many signs and tokens of grace and favour, took from his own neck a jewel of great price, with the picture of Philip, his father, on the one side, and his own on the other.
      • Next was led the King's horse for that day, together with his son's; the King's saddle and furniture most richly beset with stones of great price and beauty.
      Synonyms
      value, financial value, monetary value, asking price, selling price, cost
  • 2An unwelcome experience, event, or action involved as a condition of achieving a desired end.

    〈喻〉代价

    the price of their success was an entire day spent in discussion

    他们用了一整天的讨论换来了成功。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • But for many moms, the downsides are a small price to pay for the increased time they get to spend at home.
    • For the majority, however, signing away moral rights is likely to become the unwelcome price of doing business.
    • But it quickly became apparent that James has paid a high price for his success.
    • This wrenching experience may be bearable when it is the price to be paid for development.
    • He didn't tell us that even after paying such a heavy price, success was far from assured.
    • Perhaps the price of experience is that nothing seems strange any more.
    • He considered indignity a small price to pay if he could continue to provide for them.
    • France desperately needed to reduce the scale of her military commitments, and the crown was prepared to pay a heavy price to achieve this.
    • We owe it to those who bore the burden and paid the price before us, and we also owe it to those who will come after us.
    • Curtailing innocent kids' rights to go where they've no business and are universally unwelcome is a small price to pay for some peace.
    • Maynard says the sacrifices are a small price to pay for the rewards.
    • Wallace often looks sheepish when admitting that his family has paid the price of his political success.
    • Yes, yes, yes, the road ahead may be a difficult one and the price to be paid may be high, they said.
    • You must be willing to pay the price to pursue and to achieve your goal.
    • That player may also pay a high price for success by destroying many other aspects to his life.
    • But surely one year of disappointment is a small price to pay for the long-term future of York Wasps.
    • They are keen to pay the price of Wang's success, not only because he is a winner but because the sport needs him.
    • One pays a heavy price under contemporary conditions for clinging onto that sort of conception.
    • You pay a price, I'm sure, but the experiences and stories within you are endless.
    • And it will clarify how you'd even be willing to pay the price of pain to achieve it!
    Synonyms
    consequence, result, cost, toll, penalty, sacrifice, forfeit, forfeiture
verbprīspraɪs
[with object]
  • Decide the amount required as payment for (something offered for sale)

    为…定价

    the watches in this range are priced at $14.50

    这一类手表定价为14.50英镑。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Sea tours are usually priced at a reasonable rate for tourists and can be found almost anywhere!
    • The full colour magazine is published by Bairds in Antrim on a quarterly basis, and priced at €4.50.
    • Also pictured is the Kennedy coffee table with drawers which is priced at £1,495.
    • There are some companies we think are still priced at attractive rates and have the ability to grow their earnings.
    • Many of these icon wines are very flavourful and pleasant, and if they were priced at their true worth they would be justifiable.
    • Ashmore said houses sold as long as they were priced at sensible levels.
    • John Rohan Auctioneers is handling the sale of this property which is priced at £220,000.
    • One barrier had been that most customers were paying for time spent online, whereas broadband is priced at a flat rate on a monthly basis.
    • The new car is due to go on sale here in ten days' time, priced at £84,000.
    • The 200 year history in Australia has largely been that water has been priced at the cost of producing it.
    • Tickets are now on sale from any of the committee members and are priced at £10.00.
    • A rebate of 10 per cent is being offered on the artwork that is priced at Rs.4,640.
    • Rank shares are priced at 290p, a valuation of 12 times prospective earnings for this year.
    • Get in contact with the real estate professionals in a different area to find property that is priced at a lower rate.
    • Apartments are priced at three rates, depending on the rental guarantees attached.
    • The books are priced at $29.95 and are on sale at most local bookstores and outlets.
    • My favourite part in their books is the lore on rare books, how to identify a First Ed and what classic Modern Firsts are priced at.
    • One of the houses is the show unit and is priced at €197,500 including all furniture and fittings.
    • This is a world where information is freely available or priced at fair market value rates.
    • The soft drinks meant for export were priced at a cheaper rate that those for internal sale, and were not subject to VAT.
    Synonyms
    fix the price of, set the price of, put a price on, cost, value, rate, evaluate, assess, estimate, appraise, assay

Phrases

  • at any price

    • No matter what expense, sacrifice, or difficulty is involved.

      不惜任何代价;无论如何

      they wanted peace at any price

      他们为了和平不惜任何代价。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • The statesman's maxim shall be peace, and peace at any price.
      • History is littered with examples of ill-conceived attempts to keep the peace at any price.
      • It's difficult to resist the feeling that some ideas have been dreamed up by scientists desperate to make a name for themselves at any price.
      • He remained hopeful that the state telecom would be sold by the end of the year but he reiterated that would not be done at any price.
      • However, he favored orchid collectors as his customers since they would buy a new hybrid or rare genus of orchid at any price.
      • They wanted to reach the top at any price, literally starving and slaving to find success and fame.
      • The airport is crowded with people clamoring for a seat at any price.
      • The rule of law must not and cannot be compromised at any price or for any reason.
      • If you are determined to go at any price, though, there's still a chance as a few tickets are going to be held back and auctioned off.
      • For those who are still adamant to return to their old villages at any price, there are hard conditions.
      Synonyms
      whatever the price, whatever the cost, at whatever cost, no matter the cost, no matter what the cost, cost what it may, regardless
  • at a price

    • Requiring great expense or involving unwelcome consequences.

      以高价;以很高代价

      his generosity comes at a price

      他为慷慨付出很高代价。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • While it is an honour for any town to have been given host town status, this honour has come at a price.
      • The company had an excellent staff retention rate, but rapid expansion came at a price.
      • Peace comes at a price and is not the natural order of things.
      • Trouble is, the freedom to publish, it appears, now comes at a price - that which I cannot afford to pay.
      • But if her autobiography is anything to go by, her success has come at a price.
      • It was, he admits, a dream performance for him, but it was achieved at a price.
      • It's true natural wilderness, with a peace of spiritual proportions, but it comes at a price.
      • So long as you realise that convenience comes at a price, then by all means take the easy way out.
      • When the scheme is up and running, quality water will be on tap, but at a price.
      • Learning, dear reader, comes at a price, like everything else that life has to offer the common man.,
      Synonyms
      at a high cost, at a high price, at considerable cost, for a great deal of money
  • beyond (or without) price

    • So valuable that no price can be stated.

      极其珍贵的,无价的,千金难买的

      Example sentencesExamples
      • ‘You are,’ my mother would say, ‘the queen of the world, the jewel of the lotus, the pearl without price, my secret treasure.’
      • After all, the integrity of the nation's economic statistics gathering institutions is beyond price: Many thousands of businesspeople use those statistics as a resource every day.
      • That she completed the course gave her an emotional gift beyond price.
      • We've also learned people are more important than things; good neighbours, friends and relatives are without price; and memories are more important than possessions.
      • The rewards for being a family physician are often without price.
      • Most people who found a faded suitcase in the attic would probably consider it worthless, but for Michel Levi-Leleu, the Frenchman claiming the relic, it is beyond price.
      • What you will gain is your people's confidence in your fairness and honesty, an asset beyond price to a manager.
      • But what people value and the way that they interact with a product goes beyond price.
      • The mementoes and film were beyond price - yet useless to anyone else.
      • He never complained about dialysis, arguing that the months gained were beyond price, beyond inconvenience.
      Synonyms
      of incalculable value, of incalculable worth, of inestimable value, of inestimable worth, of immeasurable value, of immeasurable worth, invaluable, priceless, without price, worth its weight in gold, worth a king's ransom
  • a price on someone's head

    • A reward offered for someone's capture or death.

      缉拿(或杀死)某人的赏金

      Example sentencesExamples
      • He encounters Red Indians, who give him a wife and a new name, Man Who Fights In Dress, later catching up with O'Bannon, with whom he joins forces, riding to Culver City with a price on his head.
      • She had known she had a price on her head, known she was wanted by the City.
      • Even the unassuming Woolyford had a price on his head - but in comparison, Cord Roy's was the biggest (if it were combined with the rest of his gang).
      • ‘There's a price on his head so high I've thought of turning him in myself,’ she joked while reaching for her water goblet.
      • But though there was a price on Angus Dubh 's head - enough to keep a tell-tale in luxury for the rest of his wretched life - none had broken silence.
      • Speaking from an undisclosed location, the rebel leader, who carries a price on his head, said the King had closed all doors for negotiations with his action.
      • When Tommy kills a couple of Randall's gang, prompting the town bully to put a price on his head, Will abandons everything he's spent his life building to ride off with his brother.
      • There was already a price on his head for thievery.
      • She didn't doubt that there was a price on her head, but she'd do everything in her power to keep it from ever being collected.
      • Furthermore, there is a price on his head, dead or alive.
      Synonyms
      reward, bounty, premium
  • price oneself out of the market

    • Become unable to compete commercially.

      (因索价高)失去市场竞争力

      Example sentencesExamples
      • We simply cannot afford to price ourselves out of the market,’ he said.
      • Soaring cinema ticket costs mean Colchester's Odeon is pricing itself out of the market, a movie buff has claimed.
      • Coastal property is flatlining after pricing itself out of the market, and rising crime and overcrowding are also conspiring to drive buyers inland.
      • He says vacancies are up because rent decontrol allowed landlords to raise rents once tenants left, until they virtually priced themselves out of the market.
      • People should also remember that even though the general public are willing to pay for peace of mind, a time will come when any organisation can price itself out of the market, no matter what service it is offering.
      • The study suggested that in a number of cases, contractors who pay their workers the minimum wage actually price themselves out of the market in many sectors, particularly agricultural and construction work.
      • Property has practically priced itself out of the market at this stage, with the spectre of oversupply looming in many towns around the country and prices still surging forward.
      • In a glut of greed, some owners were literally pricing themselves out of the market.
      • Tourism is off, and tourism officials have warned restaurants and hotels they risk pricing themselves out of the market…
      • When it comes to food and beverages we are pricing ourselves out of the market when we must be competitive.
  • put a price on

    • Determine the value of.

      给…定价

      you can't put a price on what she has to offer

      你无法对她所给予的定价。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • It's hard to put a price on beauty, but property values of homes whose landscapes include mature trees are 5 to 20 percent higher than those without them.
      • Together with wife Kathryn he has just moved from a modern penthouse flat to a more private detached split-level house, with a neatly tended garden and a panoramic view of the sea you couldn't put a price on.
      • That's the guardian angel, that's worth everything - you can't put a price on that.
      • The first time you save a life is something you cannot put a price on or put into words.
      • There is one thing that money can't put a price on and that is friends and family.
      • You can't put a price on the embarrassment when you are sitting in the auditorium during a performance and your phone rings.
      • ‘Victor's eye test was free because his family has a history of glaucoma but the cost of an eye test is only £14 and you can't put a price on your eyesight,’ she said.
      • We provide children in the area with a social life and you cannot put a price on that, but we are so short of cash.
      • Yes, money is tight, but you can't put a price on all the joy she gives me.
      • They will get back the purchase price plus legal costs, but the turmoil it has caused is hard to put a price on.
      Synonyms
      fix the price of, set the price of, put a price on, cost, value, rate, evaluate, assess, estimate, appraise, assay
  • what price —?

    • Used to ask what has become of something or to suggest that something has or would become worthless.

      (用于询问)情况如何;(暗示)有什么用处;算什么东西

      what price justice if he were allowed to go free?

      如果让他逍遥法外,那还有什么公正可言?

      Example sentencesExamples
      • So what price the trust in this company, which has enjoyed the residue of much mutual goodwill built up over generations?
      • I also addressed the Post Workers' Union meeting at St George's Hall in the company of Coun Margaret Eaton and Marsha Singh MP - what price that effort.
      • With the countryside slathered in chemicals and the parks sanitised in the name of ‘safety’, what price our ‘heritage’?
      • But what price his reputation if it had to rest alone on the output of that wilderness period?

Origin

Middle English: the noun from Old French pris, from Latin pretium ‘value, reward’; the verb, a variant (by assimilation to the noun) of earlier prise ‘estimate the value of’ (see prize). Compare with praise.

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