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half-price
1. Half the usual or full price; esp. that at which children or poor people are admitted to an entertainment or the like, or that at which people are admitted to a theatre when the performance is half through. Also, the time at which people are so admitted, ‘half-time.’
1720De Foe Capt. Singleton xviii. (1840) 314 It was much better for us to sell all our cargoes here, though we made but half price of them. 1784Cowper Task ii. 624 A man o' the town dines late, but soon enough..To insure a side-box station at half price. 1813Examiner 15 Feb. 108/1 That class..whom the half-price admits to disturb the order..of the..Theatres. 1848Thackeray Bk. Snobs xlviii, We drank mulled port till half-price. Mod. Children under 12, half-price.
2. attrib. or quasi-adj.
1836Dickens Sk. Boz ii. (1890) 41 Theatrical converse, arising out of their last half-price visit to the Victoria gallery. 1886Cornh. Mag. July 59 Can this have been the origin of the old English half-price plan?
3. quasi-adv. At half-price.
1844Dickens Mart. Chuz. xxxii, He takes me half-price to the play. 1852― Bleak Ho. xi, To go half-price to the play. |