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price out of the market

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price   (prīs)   
n.  
  1. The amount as of money or goods, asked for or given in exchange for something else.

  2. The cost at which something is obtained: believes that the price of success is hard work.

  3. The cost of bribing someone: maintained that every person has a price.

  4. A reward offered for the capture or killing of a person: a felon with a price on his head.

  5. Archaic Value or worth.

tr.v.   priced, pric·ing, pric·es
  1. To fix or establish a price for: shoes that are priced at sixty dollars.

  2. To find out the price of: spent the day pricing dresses.


[Middle English pris, from Old French, from Latin pretium; see per-5 in Indo-European roots.]
price'a·ble adj., pric'er n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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price out of the market

Charge so much for a product or service that no one will buy it, as in Asking $10 each for those old records is pricing yourself out of the market. [First half of 1900s]

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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