upset price

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   (auction) the minimum price at which a seller of property will entertain bids

   Broaderasking price

   auction

Questions about upset price

What does upset price mean?

upset price means "(auction) the minimum price at which a seller of property will entertain bids".

Is upset price a common word?

upset price is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.