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As nouns the difference between price and sacrifice

is that price is the cost required to gain possession of something while sacrifice is the offering of anything to a god; consecratory rite.

As verbs the difference between price and sacrifice

is that price is to determine the monetary value of (an item), to put a price on while sacrifice is to offer (something) as a gift to a deity.

As a proper noun Price

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As a phrase PRICE

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price

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The cost required to gain possession of something.
  • * Shakespeare
    • We can afford no more at such a price .
  • * , chapter=3
    • , title= 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 .}}
  • The cost of an action or deed.
  • Value; estimation; excellence; worth.
  • * Bible, Proverbs xxxi. 10
    • Her price is far above rubies.
  • * Keble
    • 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 price

    Verb

    (pric)
  • 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:
    • 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.
  • (obsolete) To set a price on; to value; to prize.
  • (colloquial, dated) To ask the price of.
    • to price eggs

    External links

    * * 1000 English basic words

    sacrifice

    English

    (wikipedia sacrifice)

    Verb

    (sacrific)
  • To offer (something) as a gift to a deity.
  • To give away (something valuable) to get at least a possibility to gain something else of value (such as self-respect, trust, love, freedom, prosperity), or to avoid an even greater loss.
  • * “Don’t you break my heart / ’Cause I sacrifice to make you happy.” - From the song Baby Don’t You Do It by Marvin Gaye
  • * “God sacrificed His only-begotten Son, so that all people might have eternal life.” (a paraphrase of John 3:16).
  • * Prior
    • Condemned to sacrifice his childish years / To babbling ignorance, and to empty fears.
  • * G. Eliot
    • The Baronet had sacrificed a large sum making this boy his heir.
  • To trade (a value of higher worth) for one of lesser worth in order to gain something else valued more such as an ally or business relationship or to avoid an even greater loss; to sell without profit to gain something other than money.
  • * (Ayn Rand), Atlas Shrugged
    • If you exchange a penny for a dollar, it is not a sacrifice ; if you exchange a dollar for a penny, it is.
  • (chess) To intentionally give up (a piece) in order to improve one’s position on the board.
  • (baseball) To advance (a runner on base) by batting the ball so it can be caught or fielded, placing the batter out, but with insufficient time to put the runner out.
  • To sell at a price less than the cost or actual value.
  • To destroy; to kill.
    • (Johnson)

    Synonyms

    * (sell without profit) sell at a loss

    Derived terms

    * sacrificial

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The offering of anything to a god; consecratory rite.
  • * Milton
    • Great pomp, and sacrifice , and praises loud, / To Dagon.
  • Destruction or surrender of anything for the sake of something else; devotion of some desirable object in behalf of a higher object, or to a claim deemed more pressing.
    • the sacrifice of one's spare time in order to volunteer
  • Something sacrificed.
  • * Milton
    • Moloch, horrid king, besmeared with blood / Of human sacrifice .
  • (baseball) A play in which the batter is intentionally out in order that runners can advance around the bases.
  • A loss of profit.
  • (slang, dated) A sale at a price less than the cost or the actual value.