prize

prize
1 /praIz/ noun (C)
1 something that is given to someone who is successful in a competition, race, game of chance etc: First prize was a weekend for two in Paris.
(+ for): Festival judges awarded `Victims' the prize for the best feature film. | win a prize: Hundreds of cash prizes to be won! | prize winner: a list of prize winners | award (sb) a prize (=decide who will have a prize)
2 something that is very valuable to you or that it is very important to have: Toulouse was a rich prize, and the Count's army fought hard to keep it.
3 (there are) no prizes for guessing sth spoken used to say that it is very easy to guess something: No prizes for guessing who told you that!
4 an enemy ship caught at sea in the past, or the goods it contained
2 adjective (only before noun)
1 good enough to win a prize or to have won a prize: a herd of prize cattle
—see also: prize­winning
2 prize money money that is given to the person who wins a competition, race etc
3 a prize idiot/fool informal a complete idiot, fool etc
4 best, most important, or most useful: The resource centre is one of our prize assets.
3 verb (T)
1 (often passive) to think that someone or something is very important or valuable: a necklace which his mother had prized
2 (transitive always + adv/prep) also prise BrE to move or lift something, by pushing it away from something else; pry (2) AmE: prize sth off/up/apart etc: Eventually we prized the lid off with a knife.
prize sth out phrasal verb (T) to get information from someone with difficulty or by using force: prize sth out of sb: It took an hour to prize the address out of him.

Longman dictionary of contemporary English. 2004.

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