資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Price \Price\, n. [OE. pris, OF. pris, F. prix, L. pretium; cf.
   Gr. ? I sell ? to buy, Skr. pa? to buy, OI. renim I sell. Cf.
   {Appreciate}, {Depreciate}, {Interpret}, {Praise}, n. & v.,
   {Precious}, {Prize}.]
   1. The sum or amount of money at which a thing is valued, or
      the value which a seller sets on his goods in market; that
      for which something is bought or sold, or offered for
      sale; equivalent in money or other means of exchange;
      current value or rate paid or demanded in market or in
      barter; cost. ``Buy wine and milk without money and
      without price.'' --Isa. lv. 1.

            We can afford no more at such a price. --Shak.

   2. Value; estimation; excellence; worth.

            Her price is far above rubies.        --Prov. xxxi.
                                                  10.

            New treasures still, of countless price. --Keble.

   3. Reward; recompense; as, the price of industry.

            'T is the price of toil, The knave deserves it when
            he tills the soil.                    --Pope.

   {Price current}, or {Price list}, a statement or list of the
      prevailing prices of merchandise, stocks, specie, bills of
      exchange, etc., published statedly or occasionally.