market price

noun

: a price actually given in current market dealings

Examples of market price in a Sentence

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Put on the market for €1,500 ($1,755) by a Madrid family, who had hung it in their sitting room, a painting is discovered to be a legendary but lost Caravaggio, with a market price of maybe maybe €300 million ($351 million). Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 19 Sep. 2025 The restaurant’s mussels and clams ($17 per pound each) are chewy and absorb lots of flavor from the sauce and spice blends mixed into the bag, while the impressive portions of snow crab (market price) stand out on their own. Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 19 Sep. 2025 Write one put contract (covering 100 shares) with a strike price at or below the current market price (often out-of-the-money for lower assignment probability). Michael Khouw, CNBC, 18 Sep. 2025 Resellers should prepare to receive less than the current price of gold but should try to get as close to market price as possible since buyers will still want to resell and make a profit, according to NerdWallet, a personal finance company. Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 17 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for market price

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of market price was in the 15th century

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“Market price.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/market%20price. Accessed 22 Sep. 2025.

Legal Definition

market price

noun
1
: the price at which a security is currently selling on the market
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