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base price

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noun

  1. a price quoted as a base without including additional charges.

  2. a price used as a basis for computing freight charges at a basing point, as for steel.


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He sees the R2, with a base price of $44,990, as the only serious competitor to Tesla’s Model Y, he said, because other companies’ electric SUVs “aren’t being pushed and aren’t priced right.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026

Malaysia's Federal Agricultural Marketing Authority has deployed emergency interventions to protect the income of small farmers, such as purchasing durians from them at a base price.

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026

We have a base price target of $463 in three years, which implies a 10% internal rate of return.

From Barron's ● Jan. 16, 2026

The base price for Solar’s 38-megawatt generator is more than $26 million, according to analysts’ estimates, compared with about $800,000 for the 2.5-megawatt, piston-engine generators for the Joule project.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 30, 2025

“It varies depending on a homeowner’s needs, but the base price for this model is about sixty-five thousand dollars.”

From "The House That Lou Built" by Mae Respicio

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