A sales and marketing practice whereby the seller shows two prices, a normal price and a lower special discounted price, in order to attract customers by the apparent saving, but where the "normal" price is in fact a fiction, the goods having never actually been sold and/or offered at that price.

(economics) A statistical estimate of the level of prices of goods and services bought for consumption purposes by households.

(idiomatic) Something that is irrelevant or unimportant, usually used to emphasize the lack of relationship of a non sequitur. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see price, tea, China.

(economics) A statistical estimate of the level of prices of goods and services bought by domestic producers.

(finance) The ratio of share price to earnings per share used as an indication of the relative value of the share.

(finance) A theory of asset pricing serving as a framework for the arbitrage pricing model.

(finance) An asset pricing model using one or more common factors to price returns. With only one factor, representing the market portfolio, it is called a single factor model. With two or more factors, it is called a multifactor model.

plural of arbitrage pricing theory

(humorous) Quite expensive. / (from misunderstanding) Satisfactorily cheap.

plural of price-earnings ratio