Payment vs Price - What's the difference?
payment | price |
(uncountable) The act of paying.
(countable) A sum of money paid in exchange for goods or services.
* , chapter=7
, title= The cost required to gain possession of something.
* Shakespeare
* , chapter=3
, title= The cost of an action or deed.
Value; estimation; excellence; worth.
* Bible, Proverbs xxxi. 10
* Keble
To determine the monetary value of (an item), to put a price on.
(obsolete) To pay the price of, to make reparation for.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.ix:
(obsolete) To set a price on; to value; to prize.
(colloquial, dated) To ask the price of.
As nouns the difference between payment and price
is that payment is the act of paying while price is the cost required to gain possession of something.As a verb price is
to determine the monetary value of (an item), to put a price on.As a proper noun Price is
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protect, rest, ice, compression, and elevation. A common treatment method for sprained joints.payment
English
Noun
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] This is Mr. Churchill, who, as you are aware, is good enough to come to us for his diaconate, and, as we hope, for much longer; and being a gentleman of independent means, he declines to take any payment .” Saying this Walden rubbed his hands together and smiled contentedly.}}
Synonyms
*Derived terms
* down payment * grease payment * lubrication payment * payment in kindExternal links
* (wikipedia "payment")price
English
Noun
(en noun)- We can afford no more at such a price .
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price .}}
- Her price is far above rubies.
- new treasures still, of countless price
Derived terms
* list price * pool price * price-conscious * price stability * purchase price * reserve price * selling price * shadow price * spot price * starting price * strike price * upset priceVerb
(pric)- Thou damned wight, / The author of this fact, we here behold, / What iustice can but iudge against thee right, / With thine owne bloud to price his bloud, here shed in sight.
- to price eggs