list price

list price

English

Noun

list price (plural list prices)

1. (business) The retail selling price of an item, as recommended by the manufacturer or retail distributor, or as listed in a catalog.
   • 1870, Charles Reade, Put Yourself in His Place, ch. 5:

     A respectable workman was with me yesterday, and objected that you receive from Mr. Cheetham a higher payment than the list price.

   • 1966 April 29, "Autos: How to Pay Less for a New Car," Time:

     Paying the manufacturer's list price shown on the window sticker of a new car may be about as smart as snapping up an itinerant rug merchant's opening offer.

   • 2009 Oct. 20, Motoko Rich, "In Book-Pricing Battle, How Low Can They Go?," New York Times (retrieved 23 Oct 2011):

     Publishers typically sell hardcover books to retailers at half the list price, while retailers set consumer prices.

Related terms

• sticker price

Translations

retail selling price

Chinese: Mandarin: 標價／标价 (zh) (biāojià), 市場價／市场价 (zh) (shìchǎngjià), 目錄價格／目录价格 (mùlù jiàgé) Danish: please add this translation if you can Finnish: suositushinta, ohjevähittäishinta (fi) (recommended); listahinta (listed) German: Listenpreis (de) m Italian: prezzo di listino m Norwegian: Bokmål: listepris m Polish: cena katalogowa f Portuguese: please add this translation if you can Russian: цена́ по катало́гу f (cená po katalógu), прейскура́нтная цена́ f (prejskurántnaja cená) Swedish: listpris n

See also

• MSRP
• SRP
• RRP

References

• list price at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• price list, pricelist