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

Matt Delventhal, a principal economist at Cotality, said that average household income in Los Angeles is around $90,000 per year, so very few residents could afford to buy the median house that last year had a list price around $900,000. —Jennifer Castenson, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026

Though Blue Origin does not publicly list prices on its website, a form to reserve a seat requires customers to agree to a $150,000 deposit. —Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 22 Jan. 2026

Among those towns were Rancho Cucamonga, a few miles east in San Bernardino County, where the median list price was $914,201 in September; and the smaller Upland, sandwiched right between Rancho Cucamonga and Claremont, where the median list price was $910,970. —Michele Lerner, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2026

This list price is what insurers use when determining coverage. —Sean Hashmi, EverydayHealth.com, 16 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