0 something valuable, such as an amount of money, that is given to someone who succeeds in a competition or game or that is given to someone as a reward for doing very good work:
1 to think that someone or something is very valuable or important:
2 to use force to lift something off something else, for example by pressing a tool against a fixed point; to separate things using force:
3 A prize animal, flower, or vegetable is one that has won or deserves to win a prize in a competition because it is of very good quality:
4 a reward for victory in a competition or game:
5 given as a prize, or having won or deserving to win a prize:
prize money
The Japanese prize personal relationships in doing business.
7 something such as an amount of money that is given to a person or organization that wins a competition:
The promotion, launched on a national breakfast show, involves a competition with a daily prize of $10,000.
Cash prizes are awarded to winners and runners-up with the Student Journalist of the Year offered a paid summer placement.
a $100,000/£70,000, etc. prize More than a dozen young interior designers are fighting for the $150,000 prize.
win/get/share a prize Loan sharks sometimes use tactics which include sending letters to home-owners telling them they've won a prize and urging them to get in touch.
award/offer/present a prize Each award category offers prizes for small, medium, and large businesses.
top/big/major prize Several small businesses in the area are challenging for the top prize in the Entrepreneur Award scheme.
first/second/third prize She won first prize in a literary competition and has just had her first book published.
a prize for sth The London-based agency has been awarded several prizes for its original and creative advertising campaigns.
9 good enough to get a prize:
10 being the most valuable or most important example of its type:
First prize is a fortnight in Barbados and second prize is a weekend in Rome.
There's a prize for the fastest three runners in each category.
Carlos was awarded first prize in the essay competition.
The children collected their prizes and then went back to their places.
Her internationally acclaimed novel has won several literary prizes.
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