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price someone out
phrasal verb with priceverbuk /praɪs/ us /praɪs/
to make someone unable to buy or pay for something because the price is too high:
Individuals earning the median hourly wage of $15.20 would qualify for a mortgage of $104,532 - effectively pricing them out of most homes in the area.
Thousands of people will be priced out of the legal system, no matter how strong their case.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Costing too much
bottomless pit
capital intensive
cheap
cheap at half the priceidiom
cost an arm and a leg/a small fortuneidiom
cost someone a pretty pennyidiom
cost someone dearidiom
costliness
daylight robbery
dear
exorbitant
gouge
outprice
pretty
price fixing
price yourself out of the marketidiom
prohibitive
prohibitively
prohibitory
sight
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