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HALF PRICE

Definition: HALF PRICE

HALF PRICE

1. Half the ordinary price; or a price much reduced.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Synonyms within Context: HALF PRICE

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Discount

Sale, bargain; half price; price war.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: HALF PRICE

English words defined with "HALF PRICE": half-priceSide box. (references)
Specialty definitions using "HALF PRICE": EXCURSIONStocks, grain. (references)

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Modern Usage: HALF PRICE

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Half price for children as well as people alike. (Customers Wanted; writing credit: Max Kester; John Watt)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: HALF PRICE

Computer Images:
HALF PRICE

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Non-Fiction Usage: HALF PRICE

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

Most tour operators offer half price fares for children under 12 years old, children's clubs and babysitting. (references)

The system allows companies with contracts to provide home health care services, to offer the recipients a bouquet of optional extra (non-health related) services such as additional cleaning, shopping, gardening, etc. The Government will refund the company half the invoiced amount up to a certain maximum hourly rate thereby essentially allowing the company to sell its services at half price. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Expression: HALF PRICE

Expression using "HALF PRICE": at half price. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: HALF PRICE

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

half price book

1,305

half price.com

258

half price

183

half price book store

169

hotel at half price

73

half price broadway ticket

40

half price computer

32

half price ticket

32

half price books.com

28

half price com

21
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: HALF PRICE

Language Translations for "HALF PRICE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

me gjysmë çmimi (at half price). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏ب بنصف الثمن (at half price). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

на половин цена, половин цена. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

半價 . (various references)

   

Czech

  

polovièní cena, polovièka ceny. (various references)

   

French

  

demi-tarif. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

μισοτιμή. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

félárú, félár. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

半価 , 半値 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

は"か (bustle, distribution price, half ripe, insufficiency, low shoes, prosperity, shoes, tanka appendage to a long poem), は"ね. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

alfhay icepray.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

semitom (semitone). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

за полцены (at half-price). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

pola cene. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

medio precio. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

för halva priset. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

за півціни, півціни. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: HALF PRICE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-f-h-i-l-p-r"

-1 letter: parhelic.

-2 letters: caliper, charlie, filcher, harelip, replica.

-3 letters: achier, archil, cahier, caliph, carpel, ceriph, chafer, chapel, chiral, cipher, eclair, eparch, epical, facile, farcie, fecial, ferial, fiacre, hailer, heliac, hirple, lacier, palier, parcel, pilfer, placer, plaice, pleach, plicae, preach.

-4 letters: afire, aleph, areic, ariel, calif, caper, carle, carpi, ceria, chafe, chair, chape, chare, cheap, chela, chief, chiel, chile, chirp, clear, crape, cripe, erica, facer, farce, farci, farle, fecal, feral, feria, fiche, filar, filch, filer, flair, flare, flier, frail, haler, hilar, ileac, lacer, laich, larch, leach, lifer, pacer, paler, parch, parle, peach, pearl, perch, peril, phial, pical, pilaf, pilar, pilea, place, plica, plier, price, ralph, raphe, reach, recap, relic, rifle.

-5 letters: ache, acre, alec, alef, alif, aper, arch, aril, cafe, calf, cape, caph, care, carl, carp, ceil, chap, char, chef, chia, chip, cire, clap, clef, clip, crap, each, earl, elhi, epha, epic, face, fail, fair, fare, farl, feal, fear, fiar, fice, fila, file, fire, flap, flea, flic, flip, frae, frap, hail, hair, hale, half, hare, harl, harp, heal, heap, hear, heil, heir, help, herl, hila, hire, ilea, lace, laic, lair, lari, leaf, leap, lear, lech, lehr, liar, lice, lich, lief, lier, life, lipa, lipe, lira, lire, pace, pail, pair, pale, pare, peal, pear, pech, pelf, peri, pial, pica, pice, pier, pile, plea, plie, race, rail, rale, rape, real, reap, reif, rhea, rial, rice, rich, riel, rife, rile, ripe.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-f-h-i-l-p-r"
 

+3 letters: flexographic.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: HALF PRICE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 41 4C 46      50 52 49 43 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01000001 01001100 01000110 00100000 01010000 01010010 01001001 01000011 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#65 &#76 &#70 &#32 &#80 &#82 &#73 &#67 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0041 004C 0046      0050 0052 0049 0043 0045

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4235464025052433739

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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