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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.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of gold-plating1

First recorded in 1960–65
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Example Sentences

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

Gold plating shone on the section of the mast enclosed within the cabin.

It is at such a time that one is brought face to face with war without any of its gold plating.

For these reasons, nickel or gold plating is much to be preferred.

Specimens of filling are even more rare than those of gold plating.

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