price out

English

Verb

price out (third-person singular simple present prices out, present participle pricing out, simple past and past participle priced out)

  1. (transitive) To compute the total price of something.
    • 1970, Daily Proceedings and Reports, Annual Convention of the Communications Workers of America:
      He agrees it would be quite difficult to price out the costs of many of the services provided. Obviously some of the costs, like travel expenses, can be computed in advance, but he has no price tag that he could quickly give to you...
  2. (transitive) To exclude by means of a high price.
    High rents are pricing people out.
    • 2023 December 17, Richard Partington, “‘All my friends have moved’: how UK cities have been hollowed out by housing price rises”, in The Observer‎, →ISSN:
      “All my friends have moved to Kent. They’re being priced out,” she says.

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