HALF-PRICE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does half-price mean? 

• HALF-PRICE (adverb)
  The adverb HALF-PRICE has 1 sense:

1. for half the price

  Familiarity information: HALF-PRICE used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HALF-PRICE (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

For half the price

Context example:

she bought it half-price during the sale

 Context examples 

Sometimes, we go at half-price to the pit of the theatre—the very smell of which is cheap, in my opinion, at the money—and there we thoroughly enjoy the play: which Sophy believes every word of, and so do I. In walking home, perhaps we buy a little bit of something at a cook's-shop, or a little lobster at the fishmongers, and bring it here, and make a splendid supper, chatting about what we have seen.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I was so young and childish, and so little qualified—how could I be otherwise? —to undertake the whole charge of my own existence, that often, in going to Murdstone and Grinby's, of a morning, I could not resist the stale pastry put out for sale at half-price at the pastrycooks' doors, and spent in that the money I should have kept for my dinner.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)