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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
high-priced
adjective
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▪ All of which indicates the Charter Committee believes you really want more high-priced bureaucrats.
▪ Corning's high-quality, high-priced pots and pans are more vulnerable to recession than more humble vessels.
▪ From the perspective of economic analysis, children are high-priced consumption goods that are rapidly becoming more expensive.
▪ Just pick up the nearest hunk of high-priced technology you have on hand and hurl it against the wall.
▪ Some of the consultants were found to have spent money from the project on gifts and on unnecessarily high-priced hotel rooms.
▪ Some of us are wearing stylish golf shoes and some are wearing the high-priced sneakers of Tiger Woods' favorite shoe company.
▪ These garments now await the guile of high-priced tailors before transfer to my hotel.
Wiktionary
high-priced

a. expensive

WordNet
high-priced

adj. having a high price; "costly jewelry"; "high-priced merchandise"; "much too dear for my pocketbook"; "a pricey restaurant" [syn: costly, dear(p), pricey, pricy]

Usage examples of "high-priced".

Consequently, most broadside gunsthe lower-deck guns, certainlyare cannon, while the long-range, long-barreled, high-priced culverins are rarely seen mounted other than in bow and stern as chasers.

He was holed up in a service-flat block off Marble Arch a high-priced dosshouse for middle-management loners and transients, with the strict feel of the ward or the lab: fifty units of downward mobility, observable under controlled conditions.

Or maybe Melton and the other high-priced schemers will bring flashcards and hope for the best.

The total income, though not great, will enable me to operate several spaceships, pay the wages of a few thousand high-priced men, and there will be some available for judicious bribery.

We rose late and grabbed a beansprout in some high-priced rabbit farm and took a cab uptown.

He's been glitching the hospital circuits fit to drive the electrician and a high-priced consultant barmy.

While she stirred the high-priced Burgundy into the meatball sauce, arranged fat shrimp, thin noodles, fragrant chopped cilantro, and shredded carrot, broccolini, and black mushrooms into the shrimp rolls.

The four lanes of divided road merged and narrowed into two, lined with elegant clothing and jewelry shops, real estate offices, and the usual assortment of businesses, including beauty salons, a tennis shop, and a high-priced art gallery.

Gerswin knew both eye color and nose had been purchased from a high-priced cosmetic surgeon.

His job is to drive around at the end of the day, check out the high-priced listings, make sure everything’.

The Velvet Room was a high-priced escort service run by a woman named Bianca.

Discussed increase in libido again, mentioned calling several high-priced escort services to engage in sexual activity, and discussed desire to engage in sadomasochistic behavior.

I was thrown down on a thick Turkey carpet, the fancified rich floor covering one saw in a palace, a display rug for high-priced goods.

What had formerly been the Meat-Packing District was gentrifying rapidly, high-priced boutiques and luxury condos driving out the artists, drug dealers, and fetish clubs that had flourished here in low-rent days.

You should go to high-priced health clubs and fancy massage studios.