Boat Price

–noun

1.	a vessel for transport by water, constructed to provide buoyancy by excluding water and shaped to give stability and permit propulsion.

2.	a small ship, generally for specialized use: a fishing boat.

3.	a small vessel carried for use by a large one, as a lifeboat: They lowered the boats for evacuation.

4.

a ship.

5.	a vessel of any size built for n 1056 avigation on a river or other inland body of water.

6.	a serving dish resembling a boat: a gravy boat; a celery boat.

7.	Ecclesiastical. a container for holding incense before it is placed in the censer.

–verb (used without object)

8.	to go in a boat: We boated down the Thames.

–verb (used with object)

9.	to transport in a boat: They boated us across the bay.

10.	to remove (an oar) from the water and place athwartships. Compare ship (def. 8).

—Idioms

11.	in the same boat, in the same circumstances; faced with the same problems: The new recruits were all in the same boat.

12.	miss the boat, Informal. a. to fail to take advantage of an opportunity: He missed the boat when he applied too late to get into college. b. to miss the point of; fail to understand: I missed the boat on that explanation.

13.	rock the boat. rock 2 (def. 15).

–noun

1.	the sum or amount of money or its equivalent for which anything is bought, sold, or offered for sale.

2.	a sum offered for the capture of a person alive or dead: The authorities put a price on his head.

3.	the sum of money, or other consideration, for which a person's support, consent, etc., may be obtained, esp. in cases involving sacrifice of integrity: They claimed that every politician has a price.

4.	that which must be given, done, or undergone in order to obtain a thing: He gained the victory, but at a heavy price.

5.	odds (def. 2).

6.	Archaic. value or worth.

7.	Archaic. great value or worth (usually prec. by of).

–verb (used with object)

8.	to fix the price of.

9.	to ask or determine the price of: We spent the day pricing furniture at various stores.

—Idioms

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at any price, at any cost, no matter how great: Their orders were to capture the town at any price.

11.	beyond or without price, of incalculable value; priceless: The crown jewels are beyond price.