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Prizes

The cost required to gain possession of something.

📖 Definitions of "Prizes"

noun
  1. 1

    The cost required to gain possession of something.

  2. 2

    The cost of an action or deed.

    "I paid a high price for my folly."

  3. 3

    Value; estimation; excellence; worth.

noun
  1. 1

    That which is taken from another; something captured; a thing seized by force, stratagem, or superior power.

  2. 2

    Anything captured by a belligerent using the rights of war; especially, property captured at sea in virtue of the rights of war, as a vessel.

  3. 3

    An honour or reward striven for in a competitive contest; anything offered to be competed for, or as an inducement to, or reward of, effort.

  4. 4

    That which may be won by chance, as in a lottery.

verb
  1. 1

    To consider highly valuable; to esteem.

  2. 2

    To set or estimate the value of; to appraise; to price; to rate.

  3. 3

    To move with a lever; to force up or open; to prise or pry.

  4. 4

    To compete in a prizefight.

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