expensive
entailing great expense; very high-priced; costly: an expensive party.
Origin of expensive
1synonym study For expensive
Opposites for expensive
Other words from expensive
- ex·pen·sive·ly, adverb
- ex·pen·sive·ness, noun
- qua·si-ex·pen·sive, adjective
- qua·si-ex·pen·sive·ly, adverb
Words that may be confused with expensive
- expansive, expensive
Words Nearby expensive
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How to use expensive in a sentence
This is why affiliate businesses and licensing deals with manufacturers who can make and distribute the products on their own are often times the most appealing and less expensive routes for publishers, she said.
‘It’s worth testing’: GQ is moving from recommending products to selling its own | Kayleigh Barber | August 25, 2020 | DigidayMany consumers, though, viewed it as a ploy to boost sales of newer and more expensive iPhones.
Apple CEO Tim Cook is fulfilling another Steve Jobs vision | Rachel Schallom | August 24, 2020 | FortuneWhat Blink Health set out to do, as Fortune has previously reported, is bypass the middlemen who make drugs more expensive.
Why an Amazon and Airbnb vet joined a digital health company that wants to slash drug prices | Sy Mukherjee | August 24, 2020 | FortunePharma companies favor expensive medicines that must be taken repeatedly and generate revenue for years or decades.
Oxford’s COVID vaccine deal with AstraZeneca raises concerns about access and pricing | lbelanger225 | August 24, 2020 | FortuneWell, first and foremost, it’s more expensive to design sustainably and it’s more expensive to design so that there isn’t an obvious loser in the situation.
Uncharted Power’s Jessica O. Matthews has a plan to revive America’s crumbling infrastructure | Brooke Henderson | August 23, 2020 | Fortune
We indulge in expensive cold-pressed juices and SoulCycle classes, justifying these purchases as investments in our health.
How Taryn Toomey’s ‘The Class’ Became New York’s Latest Fitness Craze | Lizzie Crocker | January 9, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTexpensive day care pushes women out of the labor market while men continue to work outside the home.
How Good Dads Can Change the World | Gary Barker, PhD, Michael Kaufman | January 6, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTCommunity policing is expensive and, in an era of budget cuts, increasingly rare.
Some medicines, like HIV drugs, are very expensive, as most them are under brand names.
No More Paper Prescriptions: Docs Fight Fraud by Going Electronic | Dale Eisinger | December 18, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTEven local chickens were more expensive than in the summer, Smirnova and another woman at the counter complained.
W was a Watchman, and guarded the door; X was expensive, and so became poor.
Magnums of the driest and most expensive champagne seemed to be the favourite beverage.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3) | Charles James WillsYou may take my word for it that pigs are far more interesting and far more respectable, though they're expensive, mind you.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3) | Charles James WillsPlay-writing is a luxury to a journalist, as insidious as golf and much more expensive in time and money.
First Plays | A. A. MilneIt was possible that no insurance company would take the risk on an expensive building in such a quarter.
Ancestors | Gertrude Atherton
British Dictionary definitions for expensive
/ (ɪkˈspɛnsɪv) /
high-priced; costly; dear
Derived forms of expensive
- expensively, adverb
- expensiveness, noun
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