A situation in which a group of political parties band together to take opposing sides of certain issues, but take the same side on other issues. If the parties are powerful enough, voters on the opposite side of the other issues are left without a viable voting option. Instead, they must either not vote, vote for a candidate of another political party that stands no chance of winning, or vote for one of the major political parties that most closely aligns with their beliefs.

(idiomatic) A compensation for capturing or killing a person, especially someone guilty of a crime.

(intransitive) To charge an exorbitant price for a service or product so that no one will purchase it. / (transitive) To force competition out of business by offering lower or discount prices.

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.