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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
prohibitive
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a prohibitive tax on imports
▪ The cost of renovating the old buildings would be prohibitive.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And the cost can be prohibitive.
▪ Especially for a large word list the memory requirements are prohibitive.
▪ However Haines says that the processor count is unlikely to grow since the overheads become prohibitive.
▪ However, many companies find the cost of planning and implementation prohibitive.
▪ Snowden, unlike Samuel, was willing to agree in late September to a prohibitive tariff on luxury goods.
▪ The cost of uniforms and books was becoming prohibitive and the gang scene was worsening at school.
▪ The remainder will need training, services and hand-holding ranging from extensive to nearly prohibitive, she says.
▪ Trade will reduce welfare when transport costs are sufficiently close to prohibitive and increase it when they are sufficiently low.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Prohibitive

Prohibitive \Pro*hib"it*ive\, a. [Cf. F. prohibitif.] That prohibits; prohibitory; as, a tax whose effect is prohibitive.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
prohibitive

c.1600, "having the quality of prohibiting," from prohibit + -ive, or else from French prohibitif (16c.), from Late Latin prohibit-, past participle stem of prohibere. Of prices, rates, etc., "so high as to prevent use," it is from 1886. Related: Prohibitively.

Wiktionary
prohibitive

a. 1 Tending to prohibit, preclude, or disallow. 2 costly to the extreme; beyond budget. n. (context linguistics English) negative imperative

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WordNet
prohibitive

adj. tending to discourage (especially of prices); "the price was prohibitive" [syn: prohibitory]

Usage examples of "prohibitive".

In addition, the cost of a two-million-volt Xray machine is prohibitive.

Ze cost is, however, prohibitive and subject to priorities which make deliveries uncertain.

A problem he had in common with thousands of other Russians was money: not only for the prohibitive exit taxes and air tickets, but enough to live on afterward.

This had to do with the lack of infrastructure, the prohibitive cost of services, an extortionist pricing structure, computer illiteracy and luddism (computer phobia).

From this top room, the prohibitive cost of this particular estate, was clearly explained.

The only way to insure things is to destroy one of the key sidings, and I suspect I know which one is the most likely candidate to permanently disable the plan by making the odds too prohibitive and the new setup too complex to have a decent chance of success.