priced

The new priced catalogue arrived on the manager's desk.

Definition

Adjective - Having a specified price: "priced" describes an item or service that has been assigned or marked with a particular cost or value.

Usage Examples

• (The car has a price that exceeds what I can afford.)
• (We provide choices with different specified costs.)
• (The house had a price tag of three hundred thousand dollars.)

Advanced Usage

• "priced out of the market": to be excluded from buying something because the price has become too high.
  • Many young families are priced out of the housing market in big cities. (They cannot afford to buy homes due to high prices.)
• "priced to sell": set at a low price to attract buyers quickly.
  • The clearance items were priced to sell, so they sold out in hours. (The items had very low prices to encourage fast sales.)

Variants and Related Words

• Price (noun): the amount of money required to buy something.
  • The price of bread has increased. (The cost of bread is higher.)
• Pricing (noun): the process of setting or determining prices.
  • The company's pricing strategy is competitive. (How the company decides its costs.)
• Priceless (adjective): so valuable that it cannot be assigned a price; extremely valuable or amusing.
  • That antique vase is priceless. (It is beyond monetary value.)

Synonyms

• Valued: assigned a specific worth.
• Rated: given a particular price or rank.
• Costed: priced (though less common in everyday use).

Related Idioms

• "priced out": unable to afford something due to high costs.
  • They were priced out of the private school. (The fees were too high for them.)
• "priced like a king": very expensive, as if only royalty could afford it.
  • That restaurant is priced like a king, but the food is mediocre. (The prices are extremely high.)

Phrasal Verbs

• Price up: to set a high price for something.
  • The store priced up the new electronics because of high demand. (They increased the cost.)
• Price in: to include a cost or factor when calculating a price.
  • We priced in the shipping fees to the final amount. (We added shipping costs to the total price.)