sticker price

noun

: a manufacturer's suggested retail price that is printed on a sticker and affixed to a new automobile

broadly : the stated cost of something

a computer with a high sticker price

Examples of sticker price in a Sentence

We managed to negotiate 15 percent off the sticker price.

The speakers are excellent and well worth the sticker price.

Recent Examples on the Web

With fewer people buying EVs in the coming months, automakers are weighing where to set sticker prices and incentive levels to maintain some baseline of demand. —Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2025

The base window sticker price for this PHEV edition is $119,500. —Tony Leopardo, Mercury News, 22 Sep. 2025

These high-achieving students act as magnets, attracting others in their home towns who don’t mind paying an out-of-state sticker price that, to them, still seems like a steal. —Jeffrey Selingo, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2025

But parents and students need to look past the sticker price, which greatly exceeds what a vast number of families actually end up paying. —Susan Alaimo, USA Today, 19 Sep. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1959, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for sticker price

• imprecise
• sacrifice
• advice
• allspice
• concise
• device
• entice
• excise
• fordyce
• precise
• suffice
• dice