market price

noun

: a price actually given in current market dealings

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Using predictive models for weather conditions, market prices, and grid demand, the system optimizes when to charge, discharge, or run electrolysis. Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 5 Oct. 2025 The cost of these certificates is expected to be the same as the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) market price. Sam Meredith, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2025 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 See All Example Sentences for market price

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above

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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 8 Oct. 2025.

Legal Definition

market price

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