Pronunciations (6)
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/ɪkˈspɛn.sɪv/
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/ɛkˈspɛn.sɪv/
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/ɪkˈspɪn.sɪv/
Pronunciation notes
- pin-pen-merger
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/əkˈspɛn.sɪv/
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/əkˈspɪn.sɪv/
Pronunciation notes
- pin-pen-merger
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ɪkˈspɛnsɪv
Adjective
Having a high price or cost.
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This hotel is expensive.
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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.
Taking a lot of system time or resources.
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an unnecessarily expensive choice of algorithm
Given to expending a lot of money; profligate, lavish.
Usage- Obsolete
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[…] 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; […]
'His character is now before you — expensive, dissipated, and worse than both […]'
Having a high economy rate.
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Adjective
high in price or charging high prices
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expensive clothes
an expensive shop