unpriceable
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[edit]unpriceable (not comparable)
- Not priceable.
- Hyponyms: priceless, invaluable
- The owners are willing to sell, but the property seems almost unpriceable at the moment, as its market value depends on so many volatile factors: the proposed rezoning, the impending merger of the largest local employer, the outcome of the highway redevelopment proposal, and more.
- 1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids:
- The plutocratic-looking balloon with the puddle of unpriceable brandy was mine.
- 2007 August 12, Ben Stein, “Chicken Little’s Brethren, on the Trading Floor”, in New York Times[1]:
- News last Thursday that a small amount of unpriceable subprime mortgages was in a BNP Paribas fund in France sent the markets in Europe and the United States sharply lower.