half the price
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1.0
- idiom
:
a mitad de precio
- At just under 200 bucks, they're less than half the price of comparable models from other brands.
- tickets for half the price
- sells for half the price
- costs half the price
And it's less than half price, less than half the price of all these big brands.
- And it's less than half price, less than half the price of all these big brands.
- Listener, do you want the fastest working GLP one for half the price?
- Well, Sigma step aside because these are twice the quality, half the price, and they compete with all of my expensive brushes.
- And then a few days later Y product shows up in Costco and it looks eerily similar to what they sell for half the price.
- That's right, these shorts have held twice the butts for half the price, and that's bootylicious.
- Our bed was half the price of the Blue Origin Lockheed bed half.
Examples
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You can have your cardiac procedures in the Cayman Islands for half the price of the US.
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The new smartphone is available for half the price compared to last year's model.
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Also note that the store bought version is half the price of the restaurant.
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I can get a better band for half the price.
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Even at half the price, it would still be more than I would want to spend.
Blog text (25) -
It's much warmer, and we can get it for half the price.
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A competitor from China offered the same technology a lot faster and at half the price.
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Raycons offer amazing quality audio at half the price of other premium audio brands.
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An Amazon Kindle Fire and a Google Nexus 7 are both about half the price of an average iPad.
Blog text (30) -
I bought this jacket on sale; it's half the price of the original.
Synonyms
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1.1
Available for half the usual price
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3.3
A price lower than the usual one
Sold at a lower price than usual
A lower price than normal
How Expensive
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'half' (one of two equal portions) modifying 'price' (the cost), so it denotes a price that is 50% of the original. The definite article 'the' is neutral, and this numeric compositional pattern is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words will readily understand it.
Etymology
Half the price comes from a simple shop picture: the seller asks you to pay half of the original price, so the item costs 50% less. So, it means 'costing 50% less'.