price

  • noun 1 the amount of money expected, required, or given in payment for something. 2 something endured in order to achieve an objective. 3 the odds in betting.

  • verb decide the price of.

  — PHRASES at any price no matter what is involved. at a price requiring great expense or involving unwelcome consequences. a price on someone’s head a reward offered for someone’s capture or death. what price &em;&em;? 1 what has or would become of &em;&em;? 2 what is the chance of &em;&em;?

  — ORIGIN Old French pris, from Latin pretium ‘value, reward’.

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