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price | Business English
a high/low price They sold the property for a high price.
agree/agree on a price It took some time before we could agree on a price
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at/for a price
Almost anything can be fixed for a price.
put a price on sth
Staff loyalty is something that you can't really put a price on.
See also
COMMERCE (also price sth up)
All these items need pricing up before they go on display.
price yourself/sb/sth out of the market
Phrasal verb
(Definition of price from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of price
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The government therefore set up a marketing-board type of purchasing arrangement, with higher, fixed producer prices.
In short, prices have declined the most in international calls and the least in local calls.
Clearly, different analysts could arrive at different accounting prices.
Privatisation may affect prices if it has an impact on costs.
However, the pricing issue is complex as increasing prices may reduce demand, and thus have an adverse impact on the overall revenue position.
The method of pricing depends on the objectives of the water agency and the government.
If an impresario did not meet the minimum, he had to lower the ticket prices, and his theater would receive a smaller subsidy.
Even in the 1920s, when demand was expanding, an excess continued to keep prices down in most salons.
Lowering prices just enough to empty the stock of resources seems more rational.
Agents are assigned limit prices that are private knowledge to them.
First, it provided a larger selection of drugs then ever before and at regulated prices.
The prices for 1767 were, on an average, higher by 16 per cent than the ones for 1766.
The commission's own comparison of redemption values and current land prices revealed a large discrepancy.
The prices on each activity depended more on a billing structure than the true labor and material that comprised the activity.
There were also massive differences in land prices and yields.
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Collocations with price
These are words often used in combination with price.
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And, now we can all afford a beautifully produced composite copy at a remarkably affordable price.
The gross revenue is the yield multiplied by the average price of the product that year.
The authorities may imagine that the more companies who tender, the more likely they are to get a bargain price for their housing.
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