Everyone has their price

Definition

price /praÇs/ n ၁။ ေဈးႏႈန္း။ ေဈး။ a woollen sweater, price $29.95 ❍ Prices are rising/falling/going up/going down/shooting up/plummeting. ❍ I can't afford it at that price. ❍ charge high prices ❍ He sold the house at/for a good price. ❍ Ask the builder to give you a price (ie say how much he will charge) for the work. ❍ The price of cigarettes is set to rise again. See also CUT-PRICE, COST PRICE, LIST PRICE, MARKET PRICE ၂။ (တစ္စံုတစ္ခုအတြက္) ေပးဆပ္ရျခင္း၊ စြန္႔လႊတ္ရျခင္း။ Loss of independence was a high price to pay for peace. ❍ Being recognized wherever you go is the price you pay for being famous. ❍ No price is too high for winning their support. ၃။ ႏွစ္ေလးတစ္ေလး စသျဖင့္ ေလာင္းေၾကးထက္ ဒိုင္ကေလ်ာ္မည့္ အဆပိုေပးျခင္း။ Six to one is a good price for that horse. See also STARTING-PRICE v ၁။ ~ sth (at sth ) ေဈးႏႈန္းသတ္မွတ္သည္။ ေဈးႏႈန္းရိွသည္။ The agent priced the house at the right level for the market. ❍ Even the cheapest was priced at £5. ❍ These goods are priced too high. ၂။ တန္ဖိုး၊ ေဈးႏႈန္းခန္႔မွန္းသည္။ I don't know enough about porcelain to be able to price these plates. ၃။ (ကုန္ပစၥည္းတြင္) ေဈးႏႈန္းေရးမွတ္သည္။ The assistant priced the garments before putting them on display. ❏ at any price [ IDM ] မည္သည့္နည္းျဖင့္မဆို။ ဘာပဲေပးရ ေပးရ။ အေသရရအရွင္ရရ။ The people want peace at any price. ❏ at a price [ IDM ] ေဈးႀကီးႀကီးႏွင့္။ Fresh strawberries are now available– at a price! ❏ beyond price [ IDM ] ( esp rhet ) တန္ဖိုးမျဖတ္ႏိုင္ေသာ။ တန္ဖိုးအနဂၣ။ ❏ everyone has their price [ IDM ] ( saying ) ဘာသားနဲ႔ ထုထားတာမို႔လဲ၊ သူ႕တန္ေၾကးနဲ႔သူရိွတာ (လာဘ္ထိုးလို႔ရတာ) ခ်ည္းပဲ။ ❏ not at any price [ IDM ] ဘယ္နည္းႏွင့္မွ်။ ဘယ္လိုမွ။ I wouldn't have my sister's children to stay again– not at any price! ❏ price-fixing n [U] ( usu derog ) ၿပိဳင္ဘက္ကုမၸဏီ အခ်င္းခ်င္းညိႇ၍ ေဈးကိုတမင္ျမႇင့္ထားျခင္း။ ❏ priceless adj ၁။ တန္ဖိုးမျဖတ္ႏိုင္ေသာ။ အဖိုးအနဂၣ ထိုက္ေသာ။ priceless jewels/paintings/treasures ❍ ( fig ) Her one priceless asset is her common sense. ❍ INVALUABLE ၂။ ( dated infml ) ရယ္ဖြယ္ျဖစ္ေသာ။ ကိုး႐ိုးကားရားျဖစ္ေသာ။ You look absolutely priceless in that hat! ❏ price-list n ကုန္ေဈးႏႈန္း (ေပါက္ေဈး) စာရင္း။ ❏ a price on sb's head [ IDM ] အေသရရ၊ အရွင္ရရ ဖမ္းဆီးရန္ဆုေငြထုတ္ (ထား)သည္။ He knew it was dangerous to be seen– there was a price on his head. ❏ price oneself/sth out of the market [ IDM ] မတတ္ႏိုင္ ေလာက္ေအာင္ အဖိုး၊ လက္ချမႇင့္ထားသည္။ ❏ price-tag n (က) ကုန္ပစၥည္းတြင္ဆြဲထားေသာ ေဈးႏႈန္း အမွတ္အသား။ (ခ) ~ (on sth) ကုန္က်စရိတ္။ The government regard the price-tag on the new fighter plane as too high. ❏ price war n ၿပိဳင္ဘက္ကုမၸဏီမ်ား အၿပိဳင္အဆိုင္ ေဈးေလွ်ာ့ ေရာင္းျခင္း။ ❏ pricey /'praÇsi/ adj ( -ier, -iest ) ( infml ) ေဈးႀကီး [ေသာ]။ This restaurant is a bit pricey for me. ❏ put a price on sth [ IDM ] အဖိုးစားနားသတ္မွတ္သည္။ တန္ဖိုးျဖတ္သည္။ You can't put a price on that sort of loyalty. ❏ what price…? [ IDM ] ( Brit infml ) ခုေတာ့ဘာ အသံုးက်ေသးသလဲ။ What price peaceful protest now? ❍ What price all your promises now?

Examples

1. They charge the same prices in all their restaurants.
2. The cameras range in price from $150 to over $600.
3. The price per person goes down for groups of more than ten people.
4. [price of] : We can expect further increases in the price of electricity.
5. [low/high price] : Oil was at its lowest price in 30 years.
6. [half/full price] : For a limited period only
7. all our carpets are being sold at half price.
8. The high price of fame/success
9. [pay the price (for something)] : They have paid a terrible price for ignoring the crisis for too long.
10. Lamont famously described high unemployment as ‘a price worth paying’ for economic stability.
11. [at a price] : For some of these young athletes
12. success comes at a heavy price.
13. [at what price?] : She has fulfilled her dream
14. but at what price?