market price

the price at which a commodity, security, or service is selling in the open market.

Also called market value.

Origin of market price

late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50

We offered ten shillings an acre for it, the then market-price.

Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) |William Delisle Hay
A man of property, like me, is bound to consider the market-price.

Our Mutual Friend |Charles Dickens
But x has at present a current market-price determined by the labour which its production by the ordinary methods exacts.

Harmonies of Political Economy |Frdric Bastiat
I mustn't go putting the market-price up, because money may happen not to be an object with me.

Our Mutual Friend |Charles Dickens

If Madame Harris were worth as much by the pound as beef, her market-price would be about twenty-five dollars.

The Witches of New York |Q. K. Philander Doesticks

market price

the prevailing price, as determined by supply and demand, at which goods, services, etc, may be bought or sold