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price up

B2 neutral mixed transitive
In simple words

to find how much something costs or put a price on it

Literal meaning: Literally, to put a price up onto something.

Meanings

1 B2 neutral

to calculate how much something will cost

"We spent the afternoon pricing up the materials for the extension."

Grammar: separable
2 B2 neutral

to attach price labels to goods in a shop

"The assistant was pricing up a new delivery of shirts."

Grammar: separable
3 C1 neutral

to set the selling price of something, sometimes at a high level

"They priced the new model up at nearly a thousand dollars."

Grammar: separable
Usage notes

Common in retail and planning. In some varieties of English, it often means putting price labels on goods; it can also mean calculating likely cost.

Commonly used with

items goods stock a job materials furniture

Forms

Base
price up
I/you/we/they
3rd person
prices up
he/she/it
Past simple
priced up
yesterday
Past participle
priced up
have + pp
-ing form
pricing up
continuous

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Synonyms

calculate the price of cost out label mark set the price of work out the cost of

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