The price or cost of something is the amount of money you must pay to buy it.
You can also use cost to refer to the amount of money needed to do or make something.
Be Careful!
Don't use 'price' in this way. Don't say, for example, 'The price of raising a child is very high.'
You use the plural noun costs when you are referring to the total amount of money needed to run something such as a business.
You use cost as a verb to talk about the amount of money that you must pay for something.
You can use cost with two objects to say how much money someone pays for something on a particular occasion. The past tense and -ed participle of cost is cost.
Be Careful!
Don't use 'to' after cost in a sentence like this. Don't say, for example, 'How much did that haircut cost to you?'
The price /praɪs/ of something is the amount of money that you must pay to buy it.
A prize /praɪz/ is something given to someone for winning a competition or game, or for doing good work.
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Noun | 1. | ![]() value - the quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable; "the Shakespearean Shylock is of dubious value in the modern world" average cost - total cost for all units bought (or produced) divided by the number of units differential cost, incremental cost, marginal cost - the increase or decrease in costs as a result of one more or one less unit of output expensiveness - the quality of being high-priced assessment - the market value set on assets inexpensiveness - the quality of being affordable |
2. | ![]() cost - the total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor asking price, selling price - the price at which something is offered for sale bid price - (stock market) the price at which a broker is willing to buy a certain security closing price - (stock market) the price of the last transaction completed during a day's trading session factory price - price charged for goods picked up at the factory highway robbery - an exorbitant price; "what they are asking for gas these days is highway robbery" purchase price - the price at which something is actually purchased cash price, spot price - the current delivery price of a commodity traded in the spot market support level - (stock market) the price at which a certain security becomes attractive to investors valuation - assessed price; "the valuation of this property is much too high" | |
3. | ![]() value - the quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable; "the Shakespearean Shylock is of dubious value in the modern world" death toll - the number of deaths resulting from some particular cause such as an accident or a battle or a natural disaster | |
4. | price - the high value or worth of something; "her price is far above rubies" worth - the quality that renders something desirable or valuable or useful | |
5. | price - a monetary reward for helping to catch a criminal; "the cattle thief has a price on his head" reward - the offer of money for helping to find a criminal or for returning lost property | |
6. | price - cost of bribing someone; "they say that every politician has a price" cost - the total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor | |
7. | Price - United States operatic soprano (born 1927) | |
Verb | 1. | price - determine the price of; "The grocer priced his wares high" mark up - increase the price of rig, manipulate - manipulate in a fraudulent manner; "rig prices" overprice - price excessively high underquote - offer for sale at a price lower than the market price |
2. | price - ascertain or learn the price of; "Have you priced personal computers lately?" ascertain - learn or discover with certainty |