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price list

noun

Definition of price list

: a statement or list of the prevailing prices of the merchandise, stocks, specie, bills of exchange, or other matter dealt in issued statedly or occasionally by dealers to their customers and oftn giving other particulars (as import or export duties and drawbacks)

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