price out of the market

verb

To charge an exorbitant price for a service or product so that no one will purchase it.

“He's pricing out of the market, asking for $100,000 for that shack!”

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Meanings

verbprice out of the market (third-person singular simple present prices out of the market, present participle pricing out of the market, simple past and past participle priced out of the market)

present singular third person prices out of the market · participle present pricing out of the market · participle past priced out of the market · past priced out of the market

  1. intransitiveTo charge an exorbitant price for a service or product so that no one will purchase it.

    He's pricing out of the market, asking for $100,000 for that shack!

  2. transitiveTo force competition out of business by offering lower or discount prices.

    Supermarkets are trying to price farmers' markets out of the market by offering lower prices.

Origin

Usage began in the first half of the 1900s.

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