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Narrator: Today's word is "Price" — noun, pronounced /praɪs/, with the stress on "price".
Narrator: A price is the amount of money you must pay to buy something.
Narrator: In plain English, it is what's on the label.
Narrator: It comes from the Old French pris, from the Latin pretium, value.
Narrator: A common collocation is "price rise", which describes things becoming more expensive.
Narrator: It differs from "cost", because price is what the seller asks, while cost is what you spend overall.
Narrator: In a figurative sense, the price of fame is the loss of privacy.
Narrator: Retail, economics, business and daily life all rely on the word.
Narrator: So remember: a price is what you pay, in money or in sacrifice.
Speaker A: Why do people say "every man has his price"?
Speaker B: Because anyone might be bribed! PRICE comes from the Latin pretium, meaning value.
Speaker A: So it's not only about shopping?
Speaker B: No, it's about sacrifice too.
Speaker A: Example sentences?
Speaker B: "Petrol prices went up", economics. "What's the price of this jacket?", shopping. "Stress is the price of success", sacrifice.
Speaker A: Common mistakes?
Speaker B: Say a high or low price, not an expensive price, because the thing is expensive, not the price.
Speaker A: Close relatives?
Speaker B: Cost is its cousin, charge is its twin, and fee is the service alternative, but price keeps its bargaining charm!
Speaker B: Let's use "price" in AI prompts — useful for e-commerce and market analysis.
Speaker A: How would e-commerce use it?
Speaker B: Compare offers.
Prompt: Write a function that shows a price drop badge when a product's price falls by ten percent or more.
Speaker A: And market analysis?
Speaker B: Spot trends.
Prompt: Plot the average house price in these five towns over the last ten years.
Speaker A: Could it help copywriting?
Speaker B: Yes, value messages.
Prompt: Write three product lines that justify a premium price with concrete benefits.
Speaker A: One more?
Speaker B: Alerts.
Prompt: Email me when the price of this laptop falls below eight hundred pounds.
Price — meaning in Arabic & definition More P courses GL Dictionary