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EXPENSIVE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
High in price or charging high prices
Example:
an expensive shop
Classified under:
Similar:
big-ticket; high-ticket (very expensive)
costly; dear; high-priced; pricey; pricy (having a high price)
costly; dearly-won (entailing great loss or sacrifice)
overpriced (too costly for the value)
Also:
valuable (having great material or monetary value especially for use or exchange)
Antonym:
cheap (relatively low in price or charging low prices)
Derivation:
expend (pay out)
expensiveness (the quality of being high-priced)
Context examples:
Production is expensive and the products — biological agents generated by manipulating the immune system of horses — have a short shelf-life.
(Snakebite resolution set for Health Assembly approval, SciDev.Net)
The only current treatment for stenosis is valve replacement, which typically requires risky and expensive open-heart surgery.
(New Hope for Stopping An Understudied Heart Disease in Its Tracks, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
“The bath!” he said; “the bath! Why the relaxing and expensive Turkish rather than the invigorating home-made article?”
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Recent advances, however, have made whole-genome sequencing faster and less expensive.
(Algal Virus Infects, Affects Humans, NIH)
You pay her, of course; I should think it quite as expensive,—more so; for you have them both to keep in addition.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
She is only nursing Mrs Wallis of Marlborough Buildings; a mere pretty, silly, expensive, fashionable woman, I believe; and of course will have nothing to report but of lace and finery.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
The current process is very expensive, and engines should be adapted to this new kind of fuel.
(Will We Soon Drive on ‘Grassoline’?, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
If the genetically modified corn can be successfully deployed, those who live in developing countries “wouldn't have to purchase methionine supplements or expensive foods that have higher methionine," Leustek said.
(US Researchers Genetically Modify Corn to Boost Nutritional Value, VOA News)
Artificial photosynthesis has been around for decades but it has not yet been successfully used to create renewable energy because it relies on the use of catalysts, which are often expensive and toxic.
(Scientists pioneer a new way to turn sunlight into fuel, University of Cambridge)
He added other more expensive insecticides can then be deployed to treat the bed nets.
(Malaria-carrying Mosquitoes Becoming Resistant to Bed Nets in Southern Africa, VOA)
