price

Roget category 812

5. Words relating to the voluntary powers
› 5.9. Possessive relations
›› 5.9.4. Monetary relations

#812. Price

noun

price, amount, cost, expense, prime cost, charge, figure — demand, damage — fare, hire, wages etc. (remuneration) 973 — value etc. 812.1. dues, duty, toll, tax, impost, cess^†, sess^†, tallage^†, levy — abkari^† — capitation tax, poll tax — doomage [U.S.], likin^† — gabel^†, gabelle^† — gavel, octroi^†, custom, excise, assessment, benevolence, tithe, tenths, exactment^†, ransom, salvage, tariff — brokerage, wharfage, freightage.
bill etc. (account) 811 — shot.

verb

bear a price, set a price, fix a price — appraise, assess, doom [U.S.], price, charge, demand, ask, require, exact, run up — distrain — run up a bill etc. (debt) 806 — have one's price — liquidate.
amount to, come to, mount up to — stand one in.
fetch, sell for, cost, bring in, yield, afford.

adjective

priced etc. v. — to the tune of, ad valorem — dutiable — mercenary, venal.

phrase

no penny no paternoster [Lat.] — point d'argent point de Suisse [Fr.], no longer pipe no longer dance, no song no supper, if you dance you have to pay the piper, you get what you pay for, there's no such thing as a free lunch.
one may have it for — a bon marche [Fr.].

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