expensive
English
Alternative forms
- expencive (archaic)
Etymology
From Latin expensivus, from expendere, compare expense. In the sense of "high price" displaced dear.
Pronunciation
- (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɪkˈspɛnsɪv/, /ɛkˈspɛnsɪv/
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Adjective
expensive (comparative more expensive, superlative most expensive)
- Having a high price or cost.
- 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal Combustion:
- 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: […] .
- 2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68:
- […] a new study of how Starbucks has largely avoided paying tax in Britain […] shows that current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate […] “stateless income”: […]. […] the firm has in effect turned the process of making an expensive cup of coffee into intellectual property.
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- (computing) Taking a lot of system time or resources.
- an unnecessarily expensive choice of algorithm
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having a high price or cost
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