marked price

Example Sentences

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Intravenous saline, which hospitals use for hydrating patients, has marked price increases of 200 to 300 percent in the past three years.

From Seattle Times • May 12, 2017

The effects of the Depression were evident in a slight decrease from last year in the number of firms exhibiting and in marked price reductions, but the industry claimed it had not suffered greatly.

From Time Magazine Archive

The marked price is quite a fair market one for it, though you might look and wait long before such a book came into the market.

From Letters to the Clergy On The Lord's Prayer and the Church by Ruskin, John

If the owner ceases to pay the interest on the loan, the article in pawn is kept six months longer, when it is exposed for sale at a marked price.

From Aztec Land by Ballou, Maturin Murray

A sentimentalist is a man who sees an absurd value in everything and doesn't know the marked price of any single thing.

From Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man by Wilde, Oscar