list price
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Noun
list price (plural list prices)
- (business) The retail selling price of an item, as recommended by the manufacturer or retail distributor, or as listed in a catalog.
- 1870, Charles Reade, chapter 5, in Put Yourself in His Place:
- A respectable workman was with me yesterday, and objected that you receive from Mr. Cheetham a higher payment than the list price.
- 1966 April 29, “Autos: How to Pay Less for a New Car”, in Time:
- Paying the manufacturer's list price shown on the window sticker of a new car may be about as smart as snapping up an itinerant rug merchant's opening offer.
- 2009 October 20, Motoko Rich, “In Book-Pricing Battle, How Low Can They Go?”, in New York Times, retrieved 23 October 2011:
- Publishers typically sell hardcover books to retailers at half the list price, while retailers set consumer prices.
Related terms
Translations
retail selling price
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References
- “list price”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.