asking price

noun

Definition of asking pricenext
as in market value

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Recent Examples of asking price Casado is, and was ordered not to travel to Italy last week for the triangular while Saudi Arabia potentially swoops by meeting Barça’s €40 million asking price. — Tom Sanderson, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2026 Homes in Miami and West Palm Beach, Florida sold for nearly 5% less than their asking price on average, while buyers across much of the South typically paid 2% to 3% below asking in June, the latest month for which Redfin has metro-level sales data. — Mike Winters, CNBC, 7 Aug. 2026 One of our only qualms about these headphones was the hefty $359 asking price. — Kelsey Fogarty, PC Magazine, 7 Aug. 2026 The Marlins were open to trading closer Peter Fairbanks, but the asking price increased because Fairbanks has pitched well recently and the team entered play Tuesday in the thick of the National League wild card race at 58-55. — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 3 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for asking price
Recent Examples of Synonyms for asking price
  1. market value
  2. list price
  3. unit price
  4. sticker price
  5. value
  6. rate
  7. fair market value
Noun
  • With Oracle having lost more than $20 billion in stock-market value today, this appears to be penny-wise and pound foolish.
    — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 24 Sep. 2026
  • Over the past 12 months, the stock has fallen 18%, dragging McDonald's market value down to about $175 billion.
    — Amelia Lucas, CNBC, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of market value
Noun
  • The list price for the Ultra Max comes in at US$3,499 but getting in early could shave $500 off.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 23 Sep. 2026
  • According to Zillow, the median list price in Swansboro is close to $370,000, and the average home value is about $355,000.
    — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of list price
Noun
  • While well below the Mountain View per-unit price, the Sunnyvale deal was generally at a similar level as some recent apartment transactions in South San Jose.
    — George Avalos, Mercury News, 12 Jan. 2026
  • The publication suggests that the unit price could be as low as $10,000, signaling Beijing’s push to make advanced loitering munitions affordable for mass deployment.
    — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 2 Nov. 2025
Definition of unit price
Noun
  • Plus, a cut in the sticker price might eventually be offset by spending on gas.
    — Willa Rubin, NPR, 28 Sep. 2026
  • The sticker price also excludes the follow-up imaging, specialist visits and biopsies that incidental findings often trigger, expenses that can quickly outstrip the original scan.
    — Hanna Wickes, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of sticker price
Noun
  • Contrary to the traditional labor theory of value, which calculates the value of a good or service through the amount of labor required to produce it, Poliks and Trillo posit latency and delay to be the true sources of value.
    — Sophie Landres, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
  • While such gifts can help to reinforce certain values, Pennington says that is not the only reason more people are choosing not to wait until after they’re gone to give away money.
    — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of value
Noun
  • These, then collided with boron nuclei and helped drive the fusion reaction rate beyond 100 million reactions per second.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 30 Sep. 2026
  • New Mexico's arty Hotel Willa, sleek Fairmont Mumbai, and scenic Inkaterra Cabo Blanco in Peru all have rates that start below $300.
    — Olivia Morelli, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of rate
Noun
  • Investors who hold the QOF interest for at least 10 years may elect to step up its basis to fair market value, excluding the investment’s appreciation from tax.
    — Fernando Jimenez, Forbes.com, 28 Sep. 2026
  • The Fox Lake Fire Protection District has a proposal on the ballot to increase the tax rate for firefighters’ pensions, which would amount to $20 a year for a single-family home having a fair market value of $100,000.
    — Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of fair market value

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