price (prīs)
n.

1. The amount as of money or goods, asked for or given in exchange for something else.
2. The cost at which something is obtained: believes that the price of success is hard work.
3. The cost of bribing someone: maintained that every person has a price.
4. A reward offered for the capture or killing of a person: a felon with a price on his head.
5. Archaic. Value or worth.

tr.v., priced, pric·ing, pric·es.

1. To fix or establish a price for: shoes that are priced at sixty dollars.
2. To find out the price of: spent the day pricing dresses.

idiom:

price out of the market

1. To eliminate the demand for (goods or services) by setting prices too high.

[Middle English pris, from Old French, from Latin pretium.]

priceable price'a·ble adj.
pricer pric'er n.

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