Pricing

How to spell pricing

7 letters · 2 syllables

How to pronounce pricing

Say the part in capitals loudest.

What does pricing mean?

1. nounThe act or method of deciding the amount of money charged for goods or services.
2. verbPresent participle of the verb to price: assigning a cost to something.

Pricing in a sentence

• noun

  The company reviewed its pricing strategy before the holiday season.

• verb

  The staff spent the morning pricing every item on the shelves.

• noun

  Competitive pricing helped the small shop attract new customers.

• verb

  She was busy pricing the used furniture for the weekend sale.

Where does pricing come from?

Language of origin: French

This word grows from 'price', which came into Middle English from the Old French 'pris', meaning 'value, worth, or cost', itself descended from the Latin 'pretium', literally 'a reward, ransom, or money paid'. The same Latin 'pretium' also gave English 'precious' and 'appreciate', so the underlying idea of something being worth a sum of money runs through the whole family. The verb 'to price', meaning to set or fix a value on goods, developed naturally from the noun, and 'pricing' is its gerund, the act of setting prices. A spelling point worth noting: the silent 'e' of 'price' is dropped before the '-ing' ending, which is why it is 'pricing' and never 'priceing'. The same letter 'c' here sounds soft (like 's') because it sits before the front vowel 'i'.

How the word is built

• price (from Old French pris: value, cost)
• -ing (noun/verb suffix forming gerund)