the amount of money that you must pay to buy something
The price of bread went up last week.
We can't afford that car because its price is too high.
✦ From Old French ‘pris’, from Latin ‘pretium’ meaning ‘money, value’.
an unpleasant cost or sacrifice that you must accept in order to get or do something
Fame was exciting, but the price of losing her privacy was hard to bear.
There's always a price to pay for cheating on the exam.
✦ Extension of the concrete sense of ‘price’ to the abstract idea of a non-monetary cost in the 17th century.
to decide or say how much something should cost
The manager priced the new menu items carefully.
Make sure you price the laptops lower than our competitors.
✦ Verb use recorded from early 14th century, from the noun ‘price’.
