half-price

1. 1.

   for half the price

   “she bought it half-price during the sale”

Questions about half-price

What does half-price mean?

half-price means "for half the price".

How many syllables are in half-price?

half-price has 2 syllables: half--price. The stress falls on "half-".

Is half-price a common word?

half-price is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.