price up
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.20 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To calculate the price or cost of, especially when a number of components must be taken into account.
Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "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 up, like Icarus, they get burned."
- "'Do I take advantage of the technical superiority of my new product and make good profits as quickly as possible by pricing up in the market segments that I know will pay?"
- ""Isn't this area loaded with fleabag hotels?" “Not anymore. everything's either been zoned or priced up. Ten, fifteen years ago you could rent rooms by the trick, screw, strangle, and be out in twenty. But all the streetwalkers and car johns have moved online or up to Hunts Point.""
- "The builder is coming round this afternoon to price up the job."
- "I've priced up new bars to replace the slightly bent examples currently installed, I'll need a new stem too, about ₤50 the pair."
- "It was surprisingly less migraine inducing than I thought it would be, and using the travel website, ordered my visa and priced up a return trip from London Heathrow to Brisbane 365 days apart."