Definition, synonyms and related words
simple past tense and past participle of price
"After comparing several options, we decided to buy the laptop that was priced lowest for our budget."
In plain English: To price something means to figure out how much money it costs.
"The restaurant is often priced too high for students."
Usage: Do not use "priced" to mean that something was sold at a low cost; it simply indicates that an item was assigned a specific monetary value. The correct term for selling something cheaply is "sold," while "priced" only describes the act of setting that price tag.
Having a price of the kind specified.
"The vintage watch was priced at five thousand dollars, making it an investment piece for serious collectors."
In plain English: Priced means having a specific amount of money set as the cost to buy something.
"The second-hand jacket was priced very reasonably."
Usage: Use priced as an adjective to describe something that currently has a specific cost attached to it, such as in items that are priced low or priced for sale. Avoid using it to mean expensive or cheap unless you explicitly include the value, like "heavily priced."
Priced comes from the Old French prisier, meaning to estimate value, which derives from the Latin pretium signifying price or ransom. It entered English as the past tense and past participle of the verb price, indicating that something has been assigned a monetary cost.