- Pricey vs. Pricy - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Both words are surprisingly recent coinages COHA does return three more hits from 1837, 1928, and 1966, but they all look like typos or OCR failures to me Etymonline confirms: "1932, from price + -y" Pricey has always been more popular than pricy Pricey is getting even more popular, while pricy fades in comparison
- meaning - Differences between price point and price - English . . .
the price for which something is sold on the retail market, especially in relation to a range of competitive prices For example, "our shampoo is a bargain at this price point" and "I don't think I can make this deal at this price point" both emphasize the choice that the potential seller is making among other realistically potential prices
- What is the reason or proper usage of price and pricing?
Price means the amount of money one will charge to sell an item "The price for this can of tomatoes is fifty-nine cents " "The price for this can of tomatoes is fifty-nine cents " By extension, can mean what one has to give up to achieve something
- Should it be 10 US$ or US$ 10? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
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- price on and price for - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
In Insider Secrets To Hydraulics book there are two sentences with price in it: 1) Befor the distributor can quote you a price on an equivalent pump, a sales engineer has to identify all the specifications of the existing unit, such as shaft, mounting, ports and displacement, and then cross-reference this information to find a suitable alternative
- A word for price after tax and service charge but before discount
The net price is the price pre-tax, and the gross price should be the price including tax backed up by here: you know a price after tax (the Gross price) but want to find out the price before tax (the Net price) So, I would say that : $100 = initial price $110 = Gross price $100 = Net price $95 = Discount price $105 = Total price
- grammaticality - Is it correct to say what price is it? - English . . .
Your best form is "How much is it?" if you want a natural sound For "What is the price," it is better to ask "What is the price of ABC" or just "What is the price?" Asking "What job are you?" is making me equal to a job, and you want to know which one Well, I am American, but I do a job I am not my job –
- Why is a 100% increase the same amount as a two-fold increase?
People prefer to avoid the "%" increase for anything more than a few percent, due to confusion it creates: lots of readers fail to realize the distinction between "increase by" and "increase to", and even these who do, make a double take to spot which one was used, especially with values exceeding 100 by not much
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