asking price

noun

: the price at which something is offered for sale

Examples of asking price in a Sentence

The original asking price for the car was $20,000, but I was eventually able to buy it for $18,000.
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The sale even came in above the stars’ reported $4.99 million asking price for the 1,691-square-foot beachside digs. Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 21 Mar. 2025 Read Next California Chic hexagonal home sells for 101% over asking price in the Bay Area. Tj MacIas, Miami Herald, 20 Mar. 2025 Markets aren’t wrong when someone is willing to meet that asking price. Bill Speros, Boston Herald, 19 Mar. 2025 With pitchers like Dylan Cease and Sandy Alcántara projected to have high asking prices, the Yankees could go a different direction and reunite with one of their former pitchers. Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 11 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for asking price

Word History

First Known Use

1755, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of asking price was in 1755

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“Asking price.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/asking%20price. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.

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