market price

Noun

 * 1)  The price at which a product, financial instrument, service or other tradable item can be bought and sold at an open market; the going price.
 * 2) * 1776, Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: Book I: Chapter 7: Of the natural and market Price of Commodities
 * The actual price at which any commodity is commonly sold is called its market price. It may either be above, or below, or exactly the same with its natural price.
 * 1) On restaurant menus, used to mean the price charged depends on the price of supplies, which may vary.
 * 1) On restaurant menus, used to mean the price charged depends on the price of supplies, which may vary.

Usage notes

 * In the restaurant sense, particularly used for seafood, especially lobster and oysters, due to seasonality and volatile prices. Used to avoid having to update the menu as prices change, and also functions to avoid listing a particularly high price. Using menu price is formally only correct if the price of a dish changes because the price of ingredients changes (as for seafood), not if the price of the dish changes due to the composition changing (as on a cheese platter), for which   should properly be used instead, as the more general term. However, as quoted is relatively little-used and unfamiliar, while market price is far more often used and more familiar.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, käypä hinta
 * French: prix du marché,
 * German:
 * Ido:
 * Kazakh: нарық бағасы
 * Korean:
 * Polish: cena rynkowa
 * Russian: ры́ночная цена́
 * Spanish: precio de mercado
 * Ukrainian: ринко́ва ціна́, ціна́ на ри́нку


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Finnish: päivän hinta
 * French:
 * Polish: cena rynkowa
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: