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[ adjective ] high in price or charging high prices
Examples "expensive clothes" "an expensive shop" Used in print (Chicago Daily Tribune...)Well , Jerebohm and his wife Pinkie have reached the stage of affluence that stirs a longing for the more atrociously expensive rustic simplicities . (Frank Getlein and Harold C. Gardiner, S.J., Movies,...)In all_of this extensive and expensive effort , the camera was downgraded to the status of recording instrument for art_work produced elsewhere by the actor or by the author . (Jay C. Harris and John R. Van Wazer, "Detergent...)Polyphosphates gave renewed life to soap products at a time when surfactants were a threat though expensive , and these same polyphosphates spelled the decline of soap usage when the synergism between polyphosphates and synthetic detergent actives was recognized and exploited . Since practical washing procedures are both lengthy and expensive , a number of laboratory tests have been developed for the numerical evaluation of detergents . Related terms cheap dear dearly-won big-ticket overpriced big-ticket valuable |
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