price current

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price current - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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.
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              We can afford no more at such a price. --Shak.
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     2. Value; estimation; excellence; worth.
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              Her price is far above rubies.        --Prov. xxxi.
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              New treasures still, of countless price. --Keble.
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     3. Reward; recompense; as, the price of industry.
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              'T is the price of toil,
              The knave deserves it when he tills the soil.
                                                    --Pope.
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     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.
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price current - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  PRICE CURRENT. The price for which goods, usually sell in the market. A 
  printed newspaper containing a list of such prices is also called a price 
  current.