expensive ex‧pen‧sive [ɪkˈspensɪv] adjective
1. costing a lot of money:
• expensive computer equipment
• Many manufacturers would find setting up their own High Street stores prohibitively expensive (= so expensive that they could not afford it ) .
2. charging a lot of money:
• We were booked into one of Miami's most expensive hotels.
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expensive UK US /ɪkˈspensɪv/ adjective
► costing a lot of money: »
Business class travel has become very expensive.
»He was looking for insurance to cover the expensive equipment in his home office.
sth is expensive to do »Older houses are expensive to maintain.
»prohibitively/extremely/hugely expensive
Financial and business terms. 2012.