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price-current
Also pl. prices-current (occas. used for the sing.).
[= F. prix courant in same sense (1769 in Littré): so also Du. prijs courant, Ger. preiskurant.]
A list of current prices of commodities; a price-list.
1696J. Houghton Collect. Impr. Husb. & Trade No. 180 4/1 Mr. Procter's Price Current is published every Friday... These are the Prices of most Foreign Merchandizes, with the Customs payable for each. 1706Phillips, Price Current, a weekly Account publish'd in London, of the current Value of most Commodities. 1733Budgell Bee I. 181 Looking in our senseless Pamphlet for the Price Courant. 1815Niles' Reg. IX. 3/2 This account of the selling prices of the several stocks mentioned, is taken from the public prices current of the two places. 1839Southern Lit. Messenger V. 38/2 There are no daily papers..no prices current—no reports from the stock market. 1848Mill Pol. Econ. ii. iv. §3 (1876) 150 There is at each time and place a market price, which can be quoted in a price-current. 1856Trans. Mich. Agric. Soc. VII. 533 A glance at our ‘prices current’ might suffice to satisfy the most incredulous. 1866Lowell Seward-Johnson Reaction Wks. 1890 V. 293 His own countrymen were also unprovided with a price-current of the latest quotation in phrases. 1908Economist 8 Feb. 308–9 (Heading) London Stock Markets, Price Current. 1965J. L. Hanson Dict. Econ. 326/1 Prices Current, a price list showing the prices ruling at a certain date. |