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

Newer PrEP drugs Apretude and Yeztugo have list prices in the thousands of dollars. —Zach Dyer, Miami Herald, 6 Jan. 2026

Injections from Novo Nordisk and its chief rival, Eli Lilly, carry a list price of roughly $1,000 per month. —Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 5 Jan. 2026

Sellers list prices ranging from about $15 to $25 and offer local pickup in Dallas and nearby cities. —Dallas Morning News, 5 Jan. 2026

Keeping up with inflation Pfizer announced the most list price hikes, on around 80 different drugs including cancer drug Ibrance, migraine pill Nurtec, and COVID treatment Paxlovid, as well as some administered in hospitals such as morphine and hydromorphone. —Reuters 12 Hr Ago, CNN Money, 1 Jan. 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