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Antonyms for prices

Grammar : Noun, verb
Spell : prahys
Phonetic Transcription : praɪs

Definition of prices

Origin :
  • c.1200, pris "value, worth; praise," later "cost, recompense, prize" (mid-13c.), from Old French pris "price, value, wages, reward," also "honor, fame, praise, prize" (Modern French prix), from Late Latin precium, from Latin pretium "reward, prize, value, worth," from PIE *pret-yo-, from root *per- (5) "to traffic in, to sell" (cf. Sanskrit aprata "without recompense, gratuitously;" Greek porne "prostitute," originally "bought, purchased," pernanai "to sell;" Lithuanian perku "I buy").
  • Praise, price, and prize began to diverge in Old French, with praise emerging in Middle English by early 14c. and prize being evident by late 1500s with the rise of the -z- spelling. Having shed the extra Old French and Middle English senses, the word now again has the base sense of the Latin original. To set (or put) a price on someone, "offer a reward for capture" is from 1766.
  • noun financial value
  • noun consequences of action
  • verb assess financial value
Example sentences :
  • Here the employees are served with a warm dinner at prices varying from 2d.
  • Extract from : « The Story of the Invention of Steel Pens » by Henry Bore
  • The prices of a few are inserted; sixteen blankets were sold.
  • Extract from : « A Sketch of the Life of Brig. Gen. Francis Marion » by William Dobein James
  • I dare say, if this is the way you let them pay your prices.
  • Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • If he wanted to make a purchase he did not go to several stores for prices.
  • Extract from : « Dust » by Mr. and Mrs. Haldeman-Julius
  • They are to be had of various sizes and prices at the tin stores.
  • Extract from : « Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches » by Eliza Leslie
  • But I an't a-going to have every rise in prices wisited on me.
  • Extract from : « Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit » by Charles Dickens
  • I have got all the figures and prices and everything else that it is necessary to have.
  • Extract from : « A Woman Intervenes » by Robert Barr
  • Moreover, in modern times, wages lag in general rise of prices.
  • Extract from : « The Enclosures in England » by Harriett Bradley
  • The prices are favorable at the moment, and he makes his calculations.
  • Extract from : « Bremen Cotton Exchange » by Andreas Wilhelm Cramer
  • With a decline in prices, mostly, the cessation of the demand coincides.
  • Extract from : « Bremen Cotton Exchange » by Andreas Wilhelm Cramer

Synonyms for prices

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