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price out

price out verb: to compute the total price of something.

Verb

price out (third-person singular simple present prices out, present participle pricing out, simple past and past participle priced out)

  1. (transitive) To compute the total price of something.
    • He agrees it would be quite difficult to price out the costs of many of the services provided. Obviously some of the costs, like travel expenses, can be computed in advance, but he has no price tag that he could quickly give to you...1970, Daily Proceedings and Reports, Annual Convention of the Communications Workers of America
  2. (idiomatic, transitive) To exclude (someone) from a market due to rising or unaffordable prices.
    • High rents are pricing people out.
    • “All my friends have moved to Kent. They’re being priced out,” she says.2023 December 17, Richard Partington, “‘All my friends have moved’: how UK cities have been hollowed out by housing price rises”, in The Observer, →ISSN

Forms of price out

third-person singular presentprices out
present participlepricing out
past participlepriced out
pastpriced out

Questions about price out

What does price out mean?
Price out means to compute the total price of something.
What part of speech is price out?
Price out is a verb.
What is the past tense of price out?
The past tense of price out is priced out.

Words near price out in the dictionary

  1. price of admiralty
  2. price of eggs
  3. price of money
  4. price of tea in China
  5. price on someone's head
  6. price out
  7. price out of the market
  8. price point
  9. price pointed
  10. price pointing
  11. price points

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