Expensive

/ɪkˈspɛnsɪv/ · adjective

Meaning

Having a high price or cost..

Definitions by Sense

1. Having a high price or cost.
2. (computing) Taking a lot of system time or resources.
3. (obsolete) Given to expending a lot of money; profligate, lavish.
4. (cricket) Having a high economy rate.

Example Sentences

If successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move society away from the ever more expensive and then universally known killing hazards of gasoline cars: air and water pollution, noise and noxiousness, constant coughing and the undeniable rise in cancers caused by smoke exhaust particulates.

In Starbucks’s case, the firm has in effect turned the process of making an expensive cup of coffee into intellectual property.

an unnecessarily expensive choice of algorithm

[…] And that he looked into his own affairs, and underſtood them; That he had, when abroad, been very expenſive; and contracted a large debt (for he made no ſecret of his affairs); […]

[…] thus naturally generous and expenſive, he ſquandered away his money, and made a moſt ſplendid appearance upon the receipt of his quarterly appointment; […]

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• more expensive
• most expensive
• expencive

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