Price : (noun)
1: the amount of money needed to purchase something; "the price
of gasoline"; "he got his new car on excellent terms";
"how much is the damage?" [syn: terms, damage]
2: the property of having material worth (often indicated by
the amount of money something would bring if sold); "the
fluctuating monetary value of gold and silver"; "he puts a
high price on his services"; "he couldn't calculate the
cost of the collection" [syn: monetary value, cost]
3: value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to
obtain something; "the cost in human life was enormous";
"the price of success is hard work"; "what price glory?"
[syn: cost, toll]
4: the high value or worth of something; "her price is far
above rubies"
5: a reward for helping to catch a criminal; "the cattle thief
has a price on his head"
6: cost of bribing someone; "they say that every politician has
a price"
7: United States operatic soprano (born 1927) [syn: Price, Leontyne
Price, Mary Leontyne Price]
(verb)
1: determine the price of; "The grocer priced his wares high"
2: ascertain or learn the price of; "Have you priced personal
computers lately?"
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Price : \Price\, n. [OE. pris, OF. pris, F. prix, L. pretium; cf.
Gr. ? I sell ? to buy, Skr. pa? to buy, OI. renim I sell. Cf.
Appreciate, Depreciate, Interpret, Praise, n. & v.,
Precious, Prize.]
1. The sum or amount of money at which a thing is valued, or
the value which a seller sets on his goods in market; that
for which something is bought or sold, or offered for
sale; equivalent in money or other means of exchange;
current value or rate paid or demanded in market or in
barter; cost. ``Buy wine and milk without money and
without price.'' --Isa. lv. 1.
We can afford no more at such a price. --Shak.
2. Value; estimation; excellence; worth.
Her price is far above rubies. --Prov. xxxi.
10.
New treasures still, of countless price. --Keble.
3. Reward; recompense; as, the price of industry.
'T is the price of toil, The knave deserves it when
he tills the soil. --Pope.
Price current, or Price list, a statement or list of the
prevailing prices of merchandise, stocks, specie, bills of
exchange, etc., published statedly or occasionally.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Price : \Price\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Priced; p. pr. & vb. n.
Pricing.]
1. To pay the price of. [Obs.]
With thine own blood to price his blood. --Spenser.
2. To set a price on; to value. See Prize.
3. To ask the price of; as, to price eggs. [Colloq.]
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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PRICE, contracts. The consideration in money given for the purchase of a
thing.
2. There are three requisites to the quality of aPrice : in order to
make a sale.
3.-1. It must be serious, and such as may be demanded: if, therefore, a
person were to sell me an article, and by the agreement, reduced to writing,
he were to release me from the payment, the transaction would no longer be a
sale, but a gift, Poth. Vente, n. 18.
4.-2. The second quality of a price is, that the price be certain and
determinate; but what may be rendered certain is considered as certain if,
therefore, I sell a thing at a price to be fixed by a third person, this is
sufficiently certain, provided the third person make a valuation and fix the
price. Poth. Vente, n. 23, 24.
5.-3. The third quality of a price is, that it consists in money, to be
paid down, or at a future time, for if it be of any thing else, it will no
longer be a price, nor the contract a sale, but exchange or barter. Poth.
Vente, n. 30; 16 Toull. n. 147.
6. The true price of a thing is that for which things of a like nature
and quality are usually sold in the place where situated, if real property;
or in the place where exposed to sale, if personal. Poth. Contr. de Vente,
n. 243. The first price or cost of a thing does not always afford a sure
criterion of its value. It may have been bought very dear or very cheap.
Marsh. Ins. 620, et seq.; Ayliffe's Pand. 447; Merlin, Repert. h.t.; 4 Pick.
179; 8 Pick. 252; 16 Pick. 227.
7. In a declaration in trover it is usual, when the chattel found is a
living one, to lay it as of such a price when dead, of such a value. 8
Wentw. Pl. 372, n; 2 Lilly's Ab. 629. Vide Bouv. Inst. Index, h.t.;
Adjustment; Inadequacy of price; Pretium affectionis.
Based on Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [Bouvier_Law_Dictionary]:
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Price, TX
Zip code(s): 75687
Price, UT (city, FIPS 62030)
Location: 39.60166 N, 110.80129 W
Population (1990): 8712 (3410 housing units)
Area: 10.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 84501
Based on Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [Bouvier_Law_Dictionary]:
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