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)
- 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
- 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 present | prices out |
|---|---|
| present participle | pricing out |
| past participle | priced out |
| past | priced 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.
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