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单词 street price
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street pricen.

Brit. /ˌstriːt ˈprʌɪs/, U.S. /ˈstrit ˌpraɪs/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: street n., price n.
Etymology: < street n. + price n.
1. The price at which something is available on the street. Hence (in later use): the price which something, esp. a quantity of drugs, fetches when sold illicitly (cf. street value n. at street n. and adj. Compounds 4).
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1847 Daily Sentinel & Gaz. (Milwaukee, Wisconsin Territory) 28 May The Street price for wheat, yesterday, ranged from 90 to 96c.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 352/2 These articles were first introduced into general street sale about 10 years ago... The street-price was only 1d.
1911 Albuquerque (New Mexico) Morning Jrnl. 21 Nov. 3/4 The hotel price, which is exactly twice the street price of the paper.
1966 Press-Telegram (Long Beach, Calif.) 27 Sept. 1/3 The street price for this much LSD would be $13,000.
2000 Police Feb. 29 Heroin addiction is on the up, spiralling out of control as street prices of the killer drug fall.
2. Stock Market. A price quoted ‘in the street’ after the hour of closing of the Stock Exchange (see in the street at street n. 3b). Now disused.
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society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > [noun] > other specific prices
subscription price1676
mint price1758
standard1778
pool price1789
O.P.1810
stumpage1835
mint value1839
maximum price1841
piece price1865
street price1865
supply price1870
base price1876
hammer-price1900
doorbuster1917
off-price1933
reference price1943
1865 Times 17 Mar. 12/1 No meeting of the Gold Board to-day. Street price, 1995/ 8.
1889 Pall Mall Gaz. 12 Nov. 3/1 ‘Do you give “street” prices?’—‘No, we never do that. After the official prices close at half past three we continue to give the unofficial prices up to four o'clock, but never after the doors of the Exchange are closed.’
1893 W. G. Cordingley Guide to Stock Exchange 23 Some business, too, is usually effected outside the Exchange, after the doors are closed; this is quoted in the newspapers as ‘In the Street’, or ‘Street Prices’.
1905 Times 16 Feb. 13/1 Consols left off..½ above the ‘street’ price last night.
3. The price at which something is available in shops, esp. when this is lower than the recommended retail price.
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1981 Industry Week 6 Apr. 118 The street price for hand-held calculators began dropping dramatically.
1994 Ski Nov. 112 Skis tend to sell for an informal ‘street price’, varying from 20 to 40 percent below MSRP.
2004 Independent (Tabloid ed.) 19 May 23/4 With a ‘street price’..of £9,000, the Rover 25 represents a 10 per cent discount.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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