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noun

(esp in horse racing) the latest odds offered by bookmakers at the start of a race

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Words nearby starting price

starting, starting block, starting gate, starting grid, starting handle, starting price, starting rate, starting stalls, start in on, startle, startle colour

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How to use starting price in a sentence

“Price for adults to $4250; From 10 years to 14 years to $2125; Under 10 years free,” the listing says.
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The U.S. military is finally starting to train Iraqi troops to fight ISIS in restive Anbar province.
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The memoir follows Oswalt from 1995 to 1999 as he was starting out on his comedy career in Los Angeles.
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Starting under Theodore Roosevelt and Howard Taft, embassies headed by career diplomats increased in number.
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But in more middle-class and working-class neighborhoods, sessions are typically a fourth of that price.
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“But the laws of Poloeland and those of Flatland are different,” said Amalatok, starting another objection.
The Giant of the North|R.M. Ballantyne
But,” said the prime minister of Flatland, starting a difficulty, “who is to be greatest chief?
The Giant of the North|R.M. Ballantyne
(p. 054) At this period it appears that tobacco was used as money, and as the measure of price and value.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce|E. R. Billings.
We have said it had been lightly laden at starting, which was the reason of the tremendous pace at which it travelled.
The Giant of the North|R.M. Ballantyne
Yielding to the advice of his friends, he put on it a price the amount of which abashed him.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 107, November 3, 1894|Various