price out

present singular third person prices out · participle present pricing out · participle past priced out · past priced out

1. transitiveTo compute the total price of something.

   He agrees it would be quite difficult to price out the costs of many of the services provided. Obviously some of the costs, like travel expenses, can be computed in advance, but he has no price tag that he could quickly give to you...

   1970, Daily Proceedings and Reports, Annual Convention of the Communications Workers of America

2. idiomatictransitiveTo exclude (someone) from a market due to rising or unaffordable prices.

   High rents are pricing people out.

   1 more example

   “All my friends have moved to Kent. They’re being priced out,” she says.

   2023 December 17, Richard Partington, “‘All my friends have moved’: how UK cities have been hollowed out by housing price rises”, in The Observer, →ISSN