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prize

 
 
/praɪz/ noun [C]

Definition

something valuable that is given to someone who wins a competition or who has done good work: to win a prize first/second prize the Nobel Prize for Literature → See also booby prize
(Definition of prize noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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