(in Phrasefinder Bulletin Board): 'Cheap at half the price' is understood to mean 'reasonably priced' and if people understand that meaning why worry about logical niceties? It was never intended to be …

10 Taken from here: The net price is the price pre-tax, and the gross price should be the price including tax. backed up by here: you know a price after tax (the Gross price) but want to find out the price …

I am seeing both 20$ and $20 usages. (20 is nonessential to this question.) What is the difference between them?

A ruthless bargainer may indeed "extract a price" from a hesitant but desperate seller under duress—but in the less extortionate sense of simply imposing a price, "exact a price" seems less tendentious.

Somehow it really grates me when people say that something is at a "cheaper/more expensive price" or "cheaper/more expensive rate". My understanding is that prices and rates can be lower or higher, …

Feb 9, 2011 · Price point means a point on a scale of possible prices at which something might be marketed; its meaning is different from the meaning of price, which is (principally, but not only) the …

Generally speaking, only the commodity itself is on the market, while the traders themselves and other aspects of the trade are in the market. So one puts one’s pork bellies on the market at the lowest …

Apr 6, 2012 · The price of tea in China, at that time, indeed affected a great deal of economic activity, and was thus relevant to quite a few topics (even though the relevance may not have been …

I'm wondering where the term "ballpark estimate" comes from? Sometimes "ballpark" is said stand-alone to mean a rough estimate, as in "these numbers are a ballpark". I understand it must come from

Worth as a verb is obsolete. Where have you seen or heard It worths it or It worth it? What you will find is It’s worth it, used to describe something that has a value equivalent to what is being asked for it …