expensive

Definitions

1. Having a high price or cost.
2. dear (loved)
3. Taking a lot of system time or resources.
4. Given to expending a lot of money; profligate, lavish.
   obsolete
5. costly
6. Having a high economy rate.

Equivalents

Examples

“If successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move⟳ society away from the ever more expensive and then universally known killing hazards of gasoline cars: air and water pollution, noise and noxiousness, constant coughing and the undeniable rise⟳ in cancers caused by smoke⟳ exhaust⟳ particulates.”

“In Starbucks’s case, the firm has in effect turned the process⟳ of making an expensive cup of coffee into intellectual property.”

“an unnecessarily expensive choice of algorithm”

“[…] And that he looked into his own⟳ affairs, and underſtood them; That he had, when abroad, been very expenſive; and contracted a large debt (for he made no ſecret of his affairs); […]”

“[…] thus naturally generous and expenſive, he ſquandered away his money, and made a moſt ſplendid appearance upon the receipt of his quarterly appointment; […]”

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