price
What you pay
Price is what you pay to get something—usually money, but it can be any cost or sacrifice.
A store sets prices; a buyer pays them.
The price of admission might be literal or figurative.
At what price? questions whether something is worth its cost.
To price something is to set or determine its cost: We priced the car too high.
Everyone has their price suggests anyone can be bought.
Giving up something precious
Exchange for payment
- discountReduced price offered
- bargainFavorable purchase price
- dealAgreement or distribution
- markdownReduction in retail price
clearance · haggle · negotiate · quote · bid · offer · listing · purchase
Degree of importance
- valuationAssessment of monetary worth
- appraisalEstimation of worth
- estimateInformed guess at quantity
- assessmentFormal evaluation of worth
evaluation · market value · fair value · book value · face value · resale value · appreciated · depreciated
Ownership stakes or inventory
- commoditiesTradeable raw materials
- tradingExchanging for value
- futuresContracts for future delivery
- optionsAvailable courses of action
equities · fluctuation · volatility · appreciation · depreciation · correction · speculation
fee
Payment for service
toll · fare · tariff · levy · premium · surcharge · dues · expenditure · outlay · expense
sacrifice
Giving up something precious
trade-off · burden · hardship · forfeit · loss · risk · reckoning
sale
Exchange for payment
markdown · clearance · haggle · negotiate · quote · bid · offer · listing · purchase · transaction
worth
Degree of importance
assessment · evaluation · market value · fair value · book value · face value · resale value · appreciated · depreciated · undervalued
stocks
Ownership stakes or inventory
- commoditiesTradeable raw materials
- tradingExchanging for value
- futuresContracts for future delivery
options · equities · fluctuation · volatility · appreciation · depreciation · correction · speculation
- commercetrade, banking, merchant, imports, sales
- shoppingbuying, shopping cart, shop, purchases, sale
- capitalismcapitalism, free market, free enterprise, private property, profit motive
- e-commercecheckout, shopping cart, online shopping, cart, online retail
- economicssupply and demand, inflation, GDP, GNP, gross domestic product
- economyGDP, money, inflation, inflation rate, GNP
pricefree
Without payment or restriction
gratis · complimentary · no charge · costless · freebie
- price tagDisplayed cost marker
- full priceAmount without reductions
- half priceReduced by half
- first prizeAward for the winner
- pay the priceSuffer deserved consequences
- paid the priceSuffered deserved consequences
prize, priceless, prices, priced, pricing, pricey, priced out, overpriced, overprice