expensive

Language: EN · Kind: word · Transcription: [/ɪkˈspɛn.sɪv/]

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1. expensive (adj) — sense 1

Definition: Having a high price or cost.

Example: 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.

2. expensive (adj) — sense 2

Definition: Taking a lot of system time or resources.

Example: an unnecessarily expensive choice of algorithm

3. expensive (adj) — sense 3

Definition: Given to expending a lot of money; profligate, lavish.

Example: […] 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); […]

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