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reserve price

noun

: the lowest price that a seller will accept for the thing that is being sold at an auction

Full Definition of RESERVE PRICE

:  a price announced at an auction as the lowest that will be considered
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First Known Use of RESERVE PRICE

1919

Rhymes with RESERVE PRICE

asking price, break the ice, cockatrice, comma splice, dirty rice, edelweiss, hammer price, imprecise, market price, merchandise, on thin ice, overprice, paradise, point-device, roll the dice, sacrifice, Spanish rice, sticker price, underprice, water ice, wellhead price

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