The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word TARIFF
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More clues leading to the result TARIFF
- Disagreement on acceptance of a queen's duty
- Spat, receiving a plumber’s latest list of charges
- List of charges resulting from spat about artist returning
- Menu that, oddly, has jam?
- Rating mostly dodgy pricing system
- Charges a rector getting into dispute
- Small argument over a bit of road tax
- Argument about a right scale of penalties
- Row about a king’s duty
- Row over heartless administrator’s fee
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The straight part
We know that "pricing system" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case pricing system = tariff.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does TARIFF mean?
TARIFF noun- A system of government-imposed duties levied on imported or exported goods; a list of such duties, or the duties themselves.
- A schedule of rates, fees or prices.
- A sentence determined according to a scale of standard penalties for certain categories of crime.
- To levy a duty on (something)