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pricing up

pricing up is the present participle and gerund of price up.

Meaning of price up

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive, transitive) To increase the price of.
    • Simply that when marketers think of pricing up, they need to think of themselves as Icarus. Their objectives may be noble, like improving profitability, being able to give their consumers a better product or experience, or being able to spend more on media, but when they get carried away in pricing...2007, Mainak Dhar, Brand Management 101: 101 Lessons from Real-World Marketing, →ISBN, page 107
  2. (transitive) To calculate the price or cost of, especially when a number of components must be taken into account.
    • The builder is coming round this afternoon to price up the job.

Questions about pricing up

What is pricing up the present participle and gerund of?
Pricing up is the present participle and gerund of price up.

Words near pricing up in the dictionary

  1. priciness
  2. pricing
  3. pricing in
  4. pricing out
  5. pricing to sell
  6. pricing up
  7. pricings
  8. prick
  9. prick farrier
  10. prick farriers
  11. prick of perfection

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