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SELLING PRICE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does selling price mean?
• SELLING PRICE (noun)
The noun SELLING PRICE has 1 sense:
1. the price at which something is offered for sale
Familiarity information: SELLING PRICE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The price at which something is offered for sale
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Synonyms:
asking price; selling price
Hypernyms ("selling price" is a kind of...):
damage; price; terms (the amount of money needed to purchase something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "selling price"):
offer price ((stock market) the price at which a broker is willing to sell a certain security)
upset price ((auction) the minimum price at which a seller of property will entertain bids)
list price (the selling price of something as stated in a catalogue or price list; often subject to discounts)
Context examples
Always, as soon as he received his liberty, he fled away, and always he fled north. He was possessed of an obsession that drove him north. The homing instinct, Irvine called it, after he had expended the selling price of a sonnet in getting the animal back from northern Oregon.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
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