Skip to main content
Glite Dictionary
🐕 To bring back 💰 To be sold for 🔄 A retrieval 💻 To get data 👻 To take away
to fetch

to fetch

23 5.3
To sell for a particular price
  • verb
  • /fɛtʃ/
translation icon : alcanzar
  • The WBAI license would fetch a large check if it were put up for sale.
  • fetch a high price
  • fetch high prices

And if this thing goes competitive, then they know the price fetched in the marketplace is going to decline.

Examples

  • In September, the whole rotted enterprise sold at auction in Poughkeepsie, fetching two thousand dollars.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • This should fetch me a few pesos back in the town.

    The Dead and the Damned (2011)

  • In 15 years, it will fetch three times what it's worth now.

    Albert Nobbs (2011)

  • This could actually fetch a price.

    Christmas Inheritance (2017)

  • We expect him to fetch over three million dollars.

    A View to a Kill (1985)

  • - It will fetch a great price.

    Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)

  • Also, small parcels of rough diamonds can fetch several million dollars on the world diamond market.

    Academic text (2004)

  • This bottle would fetch 50,000 Euros at an auction.

    Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (2011)

  • An extraordinary transparent car could fetch as much as GBP 295,000 when it goes up for auction.

    Blog text (26)

  • This rare painting could fetch over a million dollars at auction.

Synonyms

to sell
vsto fetch
∞ 1.0

To give something to someone for money

focuses on the exact price received rather than the act of exchange
to bring
vsto fetch
241 3.4

To sell for a certain amount of money

is bought at a particular price without implying it was offered
to bring in
vsto fetch
123 2.8

Earn money from a thing or activity

only means being bought for a price not earning or generating money

Phrasal Verbs

to play fetch
6 1.9

A game where you throw a ball for a dog to run after and bring back

to fetch and carry
  • Informal
1 5.7

To do small, simple tasks or errands for someone in charge

to fetch the mail
  • US
1 1.9

To go and collect letters and packages from a mailbox

to fetch the mail
  • Specialized
3.4

To get new email messages from a mail server to your device

to fetch up
  • UK
7.7

To finally arrive somewhere after a long or unexpected journey

to fetch up
  • UK
7.2

To find something without expecting it while searching

to make fetch happen
  • Slang
9.9

To try to get a new word or fashion to become popular

Compounds

fetch-and-carry task
  • Informal
6.6

A simple, boring job doing small errands and chores

fetch-and-carry task
  • Specialized
7.2

A robot action to pick up an object and carry it to a place

How Expensive

to bring in
123 2.8
to bring
241 3.4
to fetch
23 5.3

Surface Forms

fetch infinitive
fetched past
fetched past participle
fetching present participle
fetches third person singular

Etymology

Fetch in the sense of being sold for a price comes from the same idea of 'getting'—an item 'fetches' a price when it 'gets' that amount of money. The word comes from Old English feccan, 'to bring' or 'get', so the price is what the item 'brings'.