gold-plating

[ gohld-pley-ting ]

noun
  1. the incorporation of costly and unnecessary features or refinements into a product or structure.

  2. any expensive nonessential item, convenience, or feature: an apartment with a sauna and other gold-plating.

Origin of gold-plating

1
First recorded in 1960–65

Words Nearby gold-plating

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How to use gold-plating in a sentence

  • During gold-plating there is a considerable advantage in keeping the electrodes moving or the solution stirred.

    On Laboratory Arts | Richard Threlfall
  • Gold plating shone on the section of the mast enclosed within the cabin.

    A Friend of Caesar | William Stearns Davis
  • It is at such a time that one is brought face to face with war without any of its gold plating.

    Drum Taps in Dixie | Delavan S. Miller
  • For these reasons, nickel or gold plating is much to be preferred.

    On Laboratory Arts | Richard Threlfall
  • Specimens of filling are even more rare than those of gold plating.

    Pagan and Christian Rome | Rodolfo Lanciani