list price

noun

: the basic price of an item as published in a catalog, price list, or advertisement before any discounts are taken

Examples of list price in a Sentence

The car's list price was $30,000, but the actual selling price was less.

We were given a 10 percent discount off the list price.

Recent Examples on the Web

Amazon has the Sony 75-inch Bravia 3 4K Smart TV on sale for $898, down from its regular $1,098 list price. — Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 7 Aug. 2026

The list price of the drug, Tudriqev, will be $450,000 per course of therapy before rebates and discounts. — Meghana Keshavan, STAT, 7 Aug. 2026

What the pricing settles is that Meta is treating developer behavior as an asset worth buying at a steep discount to its own list price. — Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026

They're currently priced at US$269 (discounted from the list price of $299), which is fair given its basic feature set – and that's a lot less than other devices with AR capabilities and Android built in. — New Atlas, 17 July 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1871, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for list price

• advice
• allspice
• concise
• device
• entice
• excise
• fordyce
• precise
• suffice
• dice
• feis
• gneiss

Kids Definition

list price

noun

: the retail price of an item as published in a catalog, price list, or advertisement