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expensive

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES an expensive commodity ▪ Consumers began to find that they could afford more expensive commodities. an expensive gift ▪ He was always showering Louise with expensive gifts. an expensive/cheap restaurant ▪ He took ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s, "given to profuse expenditure," from expense (n.) + -ive . Meaning "costly, requiring profuse expenditure" is from 1630s. Earlier was expenseful (c.1600). Expenseless was in use mid-17c.-18c., but there seems now nothing notable to which it applies, ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. high in price or charging high prices; "expensive clothes"; "an expensive shop" [ant: cheap ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Having a high price or cost.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Expensive \Ex*pen"sive\, a. Occasioning expense; calling for liberal outlay; costly; dear; liberal; as, expensive dress; an expensive house or family. War is expensive, and peace desirable. --Burke. Free in expending; very liberal; especially, in a bad ...

Usage examples of expensive.

Vuitton clutch hung from her elbow and she pushed an expensive Bertini stroller accessorized with an infant whose blond hair matched her own.

She had ached to point out that the shockingly expensive hairdresser who cut it once monthly and the even more horrendously expensive lightening procedure which involved a trip to London every month could hardly be described as natural, but what was the point?

After all, everyone knows that smoking is highly addictive, expensive and the No.

Yet here we are told that the disciples, especially Judas, condemned Mary for using the rare and expensive unguent of spikenard to anoint Jesus on the grounds that it could have been sold to raise money for the poor.

Waiting every day from the ninth hour onward to see if her husband would come home for dinner, postponing the meal a few minutes only at a time, she drove her appallingly expensive cook mad, and all too often ended in sniffling her way through a solitary repast designed to revive the vanished appetite of a glutton emerging from a fasting cure.

Although cases heard by three arbitrators will obviously be more expensive than those heard by a single arbitrator, there are reasons why you may want to consider using a panel.

From the pure white kaffiyeh on his head bound by the heavy silver-and-black cords of an argal, to the expensive tailored suit on his large frame and his handmade shoes, he was the embodiment of Middle East wealth and power.

At least Arioso wrote a fairly clear hand and used expensive ink that had not faded.

Alex followed the arthritic old man down the short corridor and through a narrow door into a small office that was a miniature extension of the expensive outer design.

He was dressed for the office, but his navy suit was wrinkled, his expensive tie askew, his thinning hair unkempt.

The way the commissioners kept the asterites dependent on expensive food imports was just another example of the selfish Mandate politics.

He and the Viking are now the straightest of friends, spending their off-hours tossing down the most expensive spirits that the auberge can supply and speculating on the quality of female consolation that might be available in the By-and-By.

Modeled after the expensive systems used by the ICP for Auric prisons, the airlock style doors and triple-filtered ventilation screened out most particles of alien crystal.

Squeezed into a corner of the tiny lift-cage by other Faetians, Ave and Kutsi were taken up to the tiny room set aside for them in the expensive Palace of Visitors.

Cookie tins at the bakeware store in the mall, a store I adored, would be way too expensive.