decent price

collocation in English

meaningsofdecentandprice

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decent
adjective
uk
/ˈdiː.sənt/us
/ˈdiː.sənt/
socially acceptable ...
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price
noun[C]
uk
/praɪs/us
/praɪs/
the amount of money for which something ...
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(Definition ofdecentandpricefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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That means the price of venison being adecentprice, and that depends on consumer confidence.
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It is the only way that one can be sure of getting adecentprice.
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People are finding it difficult to get hold of somewhere to live at adecentprice.
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Those countries can raise their standard of living only if we pay adecentpricefor their products.
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He may send them to market one day and sell them and get a fairlydecentpricefor them.
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It will cost—it will really cost—but we are demonstrating the price to be paid by those who do not pay adecentprice.
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How can the industry pay adecentpricefor its coal unless it is getting adecentpricefor its own products?
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What is the good of increasing your produce when the produce which you have now cannot be sold at adecentprice?
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We are dumping food at knock-down prices while poor countries are struggling to get adecentpricefor their own food.
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The farmers say that if they can see their way to getting anything like adecentpricefor oats they will grow a crop.
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We are about the delivery of quality service at a reasonable anddecentprice.
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Instead, we should not distort world food prices, as we are now doing, and deprive those people of adecentpricefor their food.
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They are told that if they want adecentpricethey must reduce the volume of supply.
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The first is that under this pricing system, whatever its defects, there are the supplies that people need at adecentprice.
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Previously, when he got£10 acreage payment, and adecentprice, it was more or less all right, but this year the position is lamentable.
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It is not true to say that the people grudge paying the fishermen adecentpricefor the fish they catch.
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You claim that in future adecentpricewill be guaranteed.
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They are not getting adecentpricefor their food products, so they cannot buy machinery or pay their debts.
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If it is unable to get adecentpricefor its sugar, it has nothing else upon which to fall back.
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Is not this one of the cases where the man who has a good crop, and might get adecentprice, is being detrimentally affected?
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