prize betydelse and definition

Betydelse av prize på svenska

• 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:

  • The critics' prize for best film was won by Marc Abbott for "Belly Laugh".

  • I won a prize in the raffle.

  • The first (= main) prize is a week for two in Miami.

  • The prize money for winning Wimbledon has been increased by 12.5 per cent.

  • The prize would be her hand in marriage.

• 1 to think that someone or something is very valuable or important:

  • In parts of Asia this plant is prized for its medicinal qualities.

  • I prize that intimacy above everything.

• 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:

  • I prized the lid off with a spoon.

  • The window had been prized open with a jemmy.

  • She couldn't prize his fingers apart to get the key.

• 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:

  • a prize bull

  • a prize marrow

  • prize assets

  • Some prize idiot (= extremely foolish person) forgot to lock the door.

• 4 a reward for victory in a competition or game:

  • David won first prize in the school science fair.

• 5 given as a prize, or having won or deserving to win a prize:

  • prize money

• 6 to value greatly:

  • 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.

  • A new sponsor has been found to put up the prize money.

  • 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.

• 8 something valuable that people want very much to have:

  • The huge export order is an important prize to be won.

• 9 good enough to get a prize:

  • He had won awards for his prize ranch animals.

• 10 being the most valuable or most important example of its type:

  • prize asset/possession The group plans to sell off its prize asset, a Russian oil company, at a knockdown price.