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2011年2月9日 · the price for which something is sold on the retail market, especially in relation to a range of competitive prices. For example, "our shampoo is a bargain at this price point" and "I don't think I can make this deal at this price point" both emphasize the choice that the potential seller is making among other realistically potential prices.

2019年2月22日 · Low price might make someone believe they are getting something cheaper. Stores often trick buyers by offering items at a ‘lower price’. This, to make the buyer think the seller is selling something cheap; but, saying you paid a ‘lower price’ for something doesn't make the item itself worth more than the cost.

• The price is including free-flow water. • The price includes free-flow water. • This book includes a free CD. • This book is including a free CD. Edit 1: As Barrie noted, including is not a preposition. Typically it serves as a present participle. See the following extract from OED1 (1901) for some examples of use. Including ppl. a. [f.

2014年8月5日 · But internally, they would see no harm in labeling the various proposals as engineering sale price, manufacturing sale price, marketing sale price and sales sale price. The equipment company may decide to have a week of sales. They would then have sales period rental price, sales period lease price and sales period sale price on a piece of ...

Both words are surprisingly recent coinages. COHA does return three more hits from 1837, 1928, and 1966, but they all look like typos or OCR failures to me. Etymonline confirms: "1932, from price + -y". Pricey has always been more popular than pricy. Pricey is getting even more popular, while pricy fades in comparison.

Price is an attribute of the item being priced. Rather it is the item itself that is cheaper. However, it is perfectly clear that the price attribute can be lower. Nonetheless. your observation is also correct: "cheaper price", "cheaper rate" etc. are common usage, and it sounds perfectly fine to my native speaker's ear.

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2015年10月28日 · Besides, the point I was trying to make is that value is not the same as price - a TV bought at a discount might be worth more than was paid for it, and might hence be valuable but not dear. dictionary.reference.com's page on "dear" mentions "expensive" as definition no5; "valuable" is only mentioned as part of the word's origin, not in usage ...

2012年11月15日 · People prefer to avoid the "%" increase for anything more than a few percent, due to confusion it creates: lots of readers fail to realize the distinction between "increase by" and "increase to", and even these who do, make a double take to spot which one was used, especially with values exceeding 100 by not much.