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prize English

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prize Noun

— A prize is something that you receive for winning or doing well. She was the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. The film was the winner of the top prize at last year's Cannes Film Festival. Best Overall Performance, and the $300 grand prize, was awarded to . The book sold slowly despite winning third prize in this year's poetry contest. The top teams will receive $1,000 cash prizes. — A prize horse, story, performance, etc. is very good and could win a prize. She caught this year's prize fish late yesterday evening.

prize Verb

— If something is prized, people feel that it is very important and often people want it. DuMond is a world-famous artist and his pieces are highly prized by collectors. The island is prized for its beautiful salt-white beaches and clear blue skies. — If you prize something off of or away from something else, you use strong force to get it to move. He prized the doors open, dragged the two men out, and laid them on the road.

prize

— noun something given for victory or superiority in a contest or competition or for winning a lottery the prize was a free trip to Europe — verb hold dear I prize these old photographs — noun (= loot) goods or money obtained illegally — noun (= trophy) something given as a token of victory — adjective (= choice, prime, quality, select) of superior grade choice wines prime beef prize carnations quality paper select peaches — verb (= pry, jimmy) to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open The burglar jimmied the lock Raccoons managed to pry the lid off the garbage pail — verb (= respect, prise) regard highly; think much of I respect his judgement We prize his creativity

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prize English » English

reward award value esteem prise premium appreciate honor bonus trophy treasure honour respect pry think highly of lever gift think well of medal cherish booty assess accolade recompense rate plunder love like laurel guerdon fancy evaluate estimate enjoy bounty appraise swag spoil remuneration quality prime price present pillage loot judge jimmy have a high regard for gratuity gauge

Topics prize topics

What do people use prize to talk about?
Social behavior Social activity Entertainment, recreation

Sports
Social behavior Conflict War

Win
Work and occupation Finance Share wealth

Give, donate

Conjugation prize conjugation

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prize · verb

Examples prize examples

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Simple sentences

The school awarded Mary a prize.
He won the prize last week.
You deserve the prize.
As was expected, he succeeded in winning the prize.
As was expected, he won the prize.
The boy who writes best wins the prize.
The first prize may be won by him.
I was astounded by the news that Mary won the first prize.
Mother Teresa was given the Nobel prize.
Mother Teresa used the prize money for her work in India and around the world.
It's my dream to win a Nobel Prize.
Tom's hope was to win first prize.
Tom got first prize, didn't he?
Dr. Yukawa, the Nobel prize winner, died in 1981.
The prize money allowed him to buy a guitar.
The prize money enabled me to go on a world cruise.
The prize won't be given to her.
The boy was awarded a prize for good conduct.
The girl was given a prize for good conduct.
Both of the children won a prize.

Movie subtitles

They work together to ensure that they win the bulk of the prize money and then divide it evenly.
It's not about the prize money. Don't you see?
You will definitely be a soldier, here, have another dumpling for a prize.
And the prize?
The prize?
And if I decide to grant your request and choose to be the first you meet. what's the prize?
The Egyptian Queen is no man's prize.
I turned out to be the prize sucker.
I got some prize money for you..
Well, if you must know, we got a lot of votes from the farmers with a picture of a prize heifer.
He's the prize hostage.
Yeah, I'm gonna be sad, but I'm not a consolation prize.
I certainly acted like a prize lunatic, and I'm sorry.
Think he'd forgo shooting againstthearchersofallEngland? We'll give a prize.
Believe it or not, it's like a prize.
Count, these are three prize-winning beauties of Pankow.
First prize, a set of fine china, goes to Miss Clarissa Gordona.
Third prize, a travel bag, goes to Miss Schulz.
You win the prize, Capt. Blood.
Throw a dart and win a beautiful prize.
Pick the winning number and win a priceless prize for the lady.
No. Of all the fishy stories, this is the prize sardine, isn't it.
We'll give a prize. Say, a golden arrow.
Here is your prize, sir archer.
But miraculously that combination won the first prize.
If it was the first prize, it must have been truly disappointing. Your daughter is very pretty and nice. And your wife also said she's so happy to get to have a really good son-in-law.
If I grab and marry Sejin Group's daughter or etc., the lotto prize amount?
Even if you've lost that prize fighter, you've still got me.
It's sad enough when a girl like you grieves herself sick over a cheap prize fighter.
It took first prize at Calgary, same in Chicago.
It gives me great pleasure to present you with this magnificent prize, a souvenir of Uncle George and His Merry, Merry Men.
She won this prize today for dancing.
I have a case of jitters that will cop the Pulitzer Prize.
If he is, we'll give him away as a bridge prize.
Have you the prize, Dr Stegg?

News and current affairs

A solution to both high prices and misdirected research is to replace the current model with a government-supported prize fund.
With a prize system, innovators are rewarded for new knowledge, but they do not retain a monopoly on its use.
The award of the Nobel Prize for Peace to the United Nations and to its Secretary General, Kofi Annan, is a cause for true celebration everywhere.
This year's Nobel Peace Prize justly rewards the thousands of scientists of the United Nations Climate Change Panel (the IPCC).
The IPCC has magnanimously declared that it would have been happy if Gore had received the Nobel Peace prize alone.
The prize is higher living standards for Russia's long-suffering people and a recovery in the country's international standing.
Despite uncertainty about Putin's intentions, that prize is not out of reach.
George Akerlof, who shared the Nobel Prize with me in 2001, and his colleagues have argued forcefully that there is an optimal rate of inflation, greater than zero.
But Fischer recognized that US culture marginalizes any pursuit that does not produce big money, so he viewed the six-figure cash prize as the ultimate symbol of advancement in his sport.
Before the green revolution, Nobel Prize-winning economist Gunnar Myrdal predicted a bleak future for an Asia mired in poverty.
The BRICS' New Development Bank, it was announced, will be headquartered in Shanghai, not New Delhi; India's consolation prize was that an Indian will serve as the Bank's first president.
At the end of August, I joined nine other American Nobel Prize winners in economics in signing an open letter to the American public.
It is hard to get any two economists - let alone two Nobel Prize winners - to agree on anything.
This year's Nobel prize celebrates a critique of simplistic market economics, just as last year's award (of which I was one of the three winners) did.
What of Nobel Prize winner Robert Mundell's famous 1961 conjecture that national and currency borders need not significantly overlap?
Indeed, after Thomas Sargent won the Nobel Prize in Economics last year, he cited it as a precedent in his acceptance speech.
Moreover, Sein initiated a dialogue with Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize winner and the leader of the National League for Democracy (NLD), about a transition to civilian rule.
Nobel Prize winners Robert Solow and Paul Krugman famously once questioned whether the proliferation of computers and technology would lead to bottom-line growth.
Our blinkered focus on it - to the detriment of other planetary challenges - will only be heightened by the attention generated by Gore's Nobel Peace Prize.
He receives the Nobel Peace Prize in the hope that maybe he can make next year better.
Could Putin one day receive, like Obama before him, a Nobel Peace Prize?
For his bravery and clarity of thought about China's future, Liu deserves the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize.
The second reason why Liu deserves the Nobel Peace Prize resonates with Alfred Nobel's original intent for the award.
It is primarily for these two reasons that we believe that Liu would be a worthy recipient of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize.
Each packs the kind of soft, utilitarian powers of persuasion that Chinese leaders are most willing to embrace: academic degrees from prestigious universities, advanced scientific and technological knowledge, high office, and a Nobel Prize.

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