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What's the meaning of price-wise? Can you please use it in a sentence and tell me the meaning?
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What's the meaning of price-wise? Can you please use it in a sentence and tell me the meaning?
Thanks a lot!

Can you give the context in which you found it?
 

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wise as a suffix means "with regard to this"
so price-wise means regarding the price.

"The hotel isn't very pretty but price-wise it was fine for us".

You can use it with other words too.

"This has not been a good year sales-wise."
or
"Job-wise my life is going ok, I just need to find a girlfriend now!"


It's quite an unusual structure though so don't start using it too much!
 

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Hello,


Just thought that you would like this example from A Treasury for Word Lovers (1983) by Morton S. Freeman, pages 321 - 322:

He says that people should not write (or even say) sentences like "Pricewise, we

have received no complaints from anyone." He recommends a sentence like "No

one has complained about our prices."

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Most teachers and books criticize this use of -wise. Others accept it only in

conversation or very informal writing -- and not too often. Still, there are people

(such as I) who have no problem with it.

Here is a bad example of mine:

News-wise, the [the name of a British newspaper] is not very good, but it's great

if you are looking for a photograph every day of a beautiful young lady!

[That newspaper publishes daily the photograph of some young lady who is not

fully clothed! Some people buy the newspaper for the photograph. They do not

care that the newspaper does not carry much serious news.]


James
 

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Thanks a lot to you all. Now it's much clearer!

I'll tell you the context in which I found it. It was an interview:
Robert: The war has affected a lot of things...
Interviewer: Price-wise?
Robert: Price-wise, yes. The fuel prices have gone up (etc.)

You really helped me!
 

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I'll tell you the context in which I found it. It was an interview:

Can you see that it would have been more helpful if you had given us this context in post #1 rather than #5?

Rover
 

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Hello,


Just thought that you would like this example from A Treasury for Word Lovers (1983) by Morton S. Freeman, pages 321 - 322:

He says that people should not write (or even say) sentences like "Pricewise, we

have received no complaints from anyone." He recommends a sentence like "No

one has complained about our prices."

*****

Most teachers and books criticize this use of -wise. Others accept it only in

conversation or very informal writing -- and not too often. Still, there are people

(such as I) who have no problem with it.

Here is a bad example of mine:

News-wise, the [the name of a British newspaper] is not very good, but it's great

if you are looking for a photograph every day of a beautiful young lady!

[That newspaper publishes daily the photograph of some young lady who is not

fully clothed! Some people buy the newspaper for the photograph. They do not

care that the newspaper does not carry much serious news.]


James

With all due respect to Mr. Freeman and his advice, I'm with you James. Use of the term "-wise" with a variety of nouns is commonly used both in print, in conversation and in advertisements. The term can, in most cases, be loosely substituted for "with regard to".
 

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I'm afraid that, usage-wise, I'm a bit of a traditionalist on this, and, advice-wise, I agree wholeheartedly with Mr Freeman.
 
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