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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Though the team might have liked to add more before the deadline, apparently none of the other available players were worth the asking prices. Peter Chawaga, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Aug. 2025 The current asking price for McLaurin would have him in the range of Pittsburgh Steelers’ D.K. Metcalf ($33 million per season), New York Jets’ Garrett Wilson ($32.5 million) and Philadelphia Eagles’ A.J. Brown ($32 million). Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 1 Aug. 2025 By Tuesday night, some of the same officials complained of high asking prices for relievers with club control, especially Jhoan Duran. Will Sammon, New York Times, 31 July 2025 That asking price was slashed from the initial listing of $52 million in 2020. Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 31 July 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 4 Aug. 2025.

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