selling price

noun

: the price for which something actually sells
They asked $200,000 for the house, but the eventual selling price was $175,000.

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The market is segmented to drive more sales and lift the average selling price during the key holiday quarter. — Ewan Spence, Forbes.com, 23 May 2026 Each year since then has produced pricier options and additions — with Apple’s expansion into Pro and Max variations of the iPhone leveling up the average selling price each year. — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 21 Apr. 2026 The five-star analyst noted that server CPU business grew by more than 50% year-over-year across enterprise and cloud, mainly driven by units with a higher average selling price, as Turin constituted over half of the mix. — Tipranks.com Staff, CNBC, 17 May 2026 The new high yield would bring the algae selling price to US $309 per tonne ($281 per tonne), less than a quarter of the selling price of algae cultivated in 2019 using state-of-the-art open-pond methods. — Prachi Patel, IEEE Spectrum, 22 Mar. 2022 See All Example Sentences for selling price

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“Selling price.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/selling%20price. Accessed 9 Jul. 2026.

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