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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

what price en · X

Meanings

  1. (before a noun phrase, idiomatic) What must be lost or sacrificed to gain ___?
    • What price freedom, after so many years of war?
  2. (before a noun phrase, idiomatic) What are the chances of ___ succeeding?
    • His eyes went to the group of weapons again and the sight gave him a new idea. "Aha, what price this?" he cried, and pulling a short sword out of its sheath he drove it in between mask and wall and levered the shell away, nails and all. 1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC: