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price out of the market

price out of the market verb: to charge an exorbitant price for a service or product so that no one will purchase it.

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive) To charge an exorbitant price for a service or product so that no one will purchase it.
    • He's pricing out of the market, asking for $100,000 for that shack!
  2. (transitive) To force competition out of business by offering lower or discount prices.
    • Supermarkets are trying to price farmers' markets out of the market by offering lower prices.

Forms of price out of the market

third-person singular presentprices out of the market
present participlepricing out of the market
past participlepriced out of the market
pastpriced out of the market

Origin of price out of the market

Usage began in the first half of the 1900s.

Questions about price out of the market

What does price out of the market mean?
Price out of the market means to charge an exorbitant price for a service or product so that no one will purchase it.
What part of speech is price out of the market?
Price out of the market is a verb.
What is the past tense of price out of the market?
The past tense of price out of the market is priced out of the market.

Words near price out of the market in the dictionary

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

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