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PRICING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does pricing mean?
• PRICING (noun)
The noun PRICING has 1 sense:
1. the evaluation of something in terms of its price
Familiarity information: PRICING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The evaluation of something in terms of its price
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("pricing" is a kind of...):
evaluation; rating; valuation (an appraisal of the value of something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pricing"):
price gouging (pricing above the market price when no alternative retailer is available)
Derivation:
price (ascertain or learn the price of)
price (determine the price of)
Context examples
The study found that the affordability of healthy and unhealthy foods was strongly associated with nutrition outcomes, including child stunting, and concluded that more research was needed on how to alter pricing to improve diets in both rich and poor countries.
(High cost of healthy food to blame for malnutrition, SciDev.Net)
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