top dollar

noun

: the highest amount being paid for a commodity or service

willing to pay top dollar to get them—

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Many millennials, for example, hoped to buy affordable starter homes but paid top dollar for houses in need of lots of repairs and updates. —

Kristine Gill, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Dec. 2024 With more eyes on the sport now, fans more willing than ever to pay top dollar to attend games featuring the best of the best. —

Jason Clinkscales, Sportico.com, 21 Dec. 2024 The social network first started experimenting with them in 2022 as a perk for premium subscribers, but interest has waned as crypto bros failed to adequately explain why anyone would pay top dollar for what is basically a JPG. —

Chloe Albanesius, PCMAG, 16 Dec. 2024 The other upside to buying an older Pixel phone is that Google is the only company that will pay top dollar for Pixel handsets when trading in to buy a newer device. —

Janhoi McGregor, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for top dollar