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# price

«price» in Mova's school dictionary: **how much money you must pay to buy something** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (price, prices); verb (price, prices, priced, pricing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The price is how much money you must pay to buy something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/price/#m1)

2) To price something is to decide or mark how much it costs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/price/#m2)

3) A price can be a bad thing you must accept to get something: «the price of fame». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/price/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In maths: the cost of one item or a group; price changes, sales, comparisons; «price per», «total price», «sale price». In everyday life: price tags, comparing prices when shopping, «half price». In stories: «at any price», «a high price to pay».

### examples

- The price of a pen is 2 dollars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/price/#x1)
- The price went down by 5 dollars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/price/#x2)
- What is the total price of 3 books? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/price/#x3)
- The sale price is half of the old price. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/price/#x4)
- Look at the price tag before you buy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/price/#x5)
- Prices go up when things are hard to get. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/price/#x6)
- The shop priced the toys at 3 dollars each. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/price/#x7)
- Which shop has the better price for apples? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/price/#x8)
- He won, but at a price: he hurt his knee. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/price/#x9)
- The price of the ox is twenty roubles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/price/#x10)

### note

Price of one × number = total cost. «Went down/up by» means subtract/add. Trap: price «for 3» is not the price of one. «Half price» = price ÷ 2. To compare deals, find the price of one (unit price). Do not confuse price (money) with prize (something you win).

### In the corpora

- [If prices rise and pay doesn't, a person is really getting poorer each year.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/3-finding-a-job-and-getting-on/13/)
- [Energy bills pay for gas and electricity, and their prices rise and fall with world events.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/6-paying-for-a-home-and-the-bills/13/)
- [Borrowing always has a price called interest, so the total paid back is more than the price tag.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/8-borrowing-and-debt/2/)
- [Inflation means prices rise over time, so the same pound buys less; if pay rises more slowly, families are worse off.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/9-when-money-is-tight/11/)
- [A sale lowers prices; a bargain is only a bargain if you would have bought the thing anyway.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/9-when-money-is-tight/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «price» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/price/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.