to bring
- verb
- /brɪŋ/
- The new smartphone model is expected to bring a retail price of $1,200.
- bring big money
- bring to market
Examples
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The auction is anticipated to bring in over a million dollars for the rare painting.
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It's a value that you then bring to everything that you sell.
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You forgot late charges, which brings it up to, uh... one million space bucks.
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All eyes now turn to New York City to see if martial law will bring the terror to an end.
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Bring her to the audition.
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However, these activities were still dependent on the teacher's willingness to bring students to the library.
Academic text (2015) -
Recently, the city has brought in truckloads of municipal compost almost every year.
Academic text (2013) -
We sneak back to the Legacy, disable the laser cannons... and bring back the map.
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Meanwhile, bearings themselves had become commoditized, and offshore producers were bringing in cheaper substitutes.
Academic text (2012) -
If we market the product well, it could bring significant profits to the company.
Synonyms
To give something to someone for money
Earn money from a thing or activity
To sell for a particular price
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
Be badly prepared for a situation where others have much better tools
Phrasal Verbs
- Informal
Cause a person or thing to be worse, for example making someone feel sad
Move something or someone from a higher to a lower place, for example land an aircraft
How Expensive
Surface Forms
Etymology
Bring in the sense 'be sold for a price' comes from the same old English bringan 'to carry', because people thought of an item as 'carrying' a certain sum to its seller, so it 'brings' that amount at auction.