Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Requiring a large expenditure; costly.
- adjective Marked by high prices.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Costly; requiring or entailing much expense: as, an expensive dress or equipage; an expensive family; expensive tastes or habits.
- Free in expending; liberal; extravagant; lavish.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Occasioning expense; calling for liberal outlay; costly; dear; liberal
- adjective rare Free in expending; very liberal; especially, in a bad sense: extravagant; lavish.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective having a high
price orcost - adjective computing taking a lot of system time or resources
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective high in price or charging high prices
Etymologies
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Examples
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Since semiconductor-grade silicon is expensive, though, using high-quality crystals makes solar cells even _more _expensive.
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Who cares if they have what you alluded to as expensive homes and cars...who cares when they've successfully raised the next generation of inmates and miscreants.
"KKK" Painted On 2 Cars Nathaniel Livingston 2006
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Smith would not say how much the investigation into Tressel's NCAA troubles would cost, although the university has hired two what he called "expensive" companies to help.
SI.com 2011
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By far the least expensive is Toronto, which I believe (just by memory) was around $65M.
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Tie it up in expensive health care and higher taxes to pay for other people getting care then you have less cash flow to your pocket.
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In practice, affordable housing seems to mean “poor people living in expensive neighborhoods.”
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If I come down with certain expensive medical problems, my private health care company can say, "It's not covered."
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But when Portland City Hall starts playing the Barcelona card, you know something dumb and expensive is about to happen.
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There's something quire bizarre about the Welsh Conservative Assembly group spending thousands of pounds of public money and staying in expensive hotels on a "fact finding" trip to Brussels.
Archive 2009-06-01 2009
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Is it more than a White Messiah movie wrapped in expensive gimickry?
Cooperative Blog » Blog Archive » Post Avatar Depression on CNN 2010
Prolagus commented on the word expensive
Why in my list? See organic.
November 7, 2008