(a.) Departing from an orbit or usual track; hence, deviating from the usual or due course; going beyond the appointed rules or established limits of right or propriety; excessive; extravagant; enormous; inordinate; as, exorbitant appetites and passions; exorbitant charges, demands, or claims.
(a.) Not comprehended in a settled rule or method; anomalous.
Example Sentences:
(1) This exorbitant incidence of monilial infections and infestations was associated with a high frequency of complications involving the homograft as well as the hosts' gastrointestinal tract during the post-transplantation period.
(2) Leonid Petrov, an expert on the North at the Australian National University, said of the North's statement: "It's a good sign, they are prepared to negotiate, but they are demanding an exorbitant and impermissibly high price … The game will continue."
(3) Talking this week to several, I heard the same story of exorbitant fees and shocking interest rates throttling real production, while Adair Turner's "socially useless" financial products attract limitless bubble credit.
(4) To identify a role for protein kinase C in lacrimal gland protein secretion, we incubated rat exorbital lacrimal gland acini in the ester 4-beta-phorbol 12, 13 dibutyrate (beta-phorbol dibutyrate), its inactive isomer 4-alpha-phorbol 12, 13 dibutyrate (alpha-phorbol dibutyrate), and the diacylglycerol analog 1,2-oleoyl acetylglycerol (OAG).
(5) Ultimately this will spell the end of America's "exorbitant privilege".
(6) In other words, European practice reflects the dollar's "exorbitant privilege" as the only true global currency, freely accepted by currency traders and investors in China and around the world.
(7) The authors believe the ability to isolate and analyze acinar preparations from the rabbit lacrimal gland will facilitate various studies of acinar cell biochemistry and physiology that would be impractical with the relatively smaller amounts of material that can be obtained from rat or mouse exorbital lacrimal glands.
(8) To begin with the central problem: the exorbitant length.
(9) Lord Myners, the City minister, warned bankers tonight that "exorbitant" bonuses would not be tolerated because profits were only being made on the back of the billions of pounds of taxpayers' money propping up the financial system.
(10) But the loans come with exorbitant rates of interest.
(11) The destruction of farms and markets, a de facto blockade on commercial imports, and a long-running fuel crisis have caused a drop in agricultural production, a scarcity of supplies and exorbitant food prices,” Oxfam said.
(12) The practice in question abused "standards-essential patents" to demand exorbitant license fees from companies that are required to must comply with a standard like 3G or Wi-Fi to make smartphones, game consoles and computers.
(13) The Italian club quoted an exorbitant loan fee when Liverpool made their initial approach on Wednesday and rejected a proposal that the temporary deal could be terminated should Balotelli step out of line.
(14) EACF caused initiation of DNA synthesis in the liver, submandibular gland, exorbital lacrimal gland and epithelium of the tongue of adult mice after i.p.
(15) These results suggest that, in the rat exorbital lacrimal gland, the Golgi saccules participate in the transport of secretory proteins, and that GERL is involved in the formation of secretory granules.
(16) Vast numbers of right-to-buy properties are now rented out by private landlords who enjoyed the hefty purchase discount, and now make even more money through exorbitant private rents.
(17) Capitalism meant exorbitant wealth at the top, but it also meant rapid technological progress and economic growth.
(18) Segments of mouse pancreatic or exorbital lacrimal gland were superfused with saline solutions.
(19) The muscarinic acetylcholine receptor (MAChR) is an important mediator of parasympathetic regulation of secretion by the rat exorbital lacrimal gland.
(20) He made a rare intervention to remind the Conservatives that they lose when they look heartless, that there is a silent phenomenon of " lace curtain poverty " in Britain and that exorbitant energy prices have left many choosing between eating and heating their homes.
Extortionate
Definition:
(a.) Characterized by extortion; oppressive; hard.
Example Sentences:
(1) Saving for a deposit is near impossible while paying extortionate rents for barely habitable flatshares.
(2) But the highlight, of course, was when One Direction ran off stage and my youngest touched Zane with a giant foam hand that I purchased for an extortionate price.
(3) Recipes for " tomato burgers " (bestowing this fruit sandwich with the holy title of "burger" is an affront to cows everywhere), help on undergoing a " friendship divorce ", extortionate travel guides … Goop covers a lot of ground.
(4) IDPs complain of people charging extortionate rent for basic shelter and Islamabad's failure to hand over promised financial handouts.
(5) On my watch it would be illegal to charge extortionate amounts for tiny flats.
(6) We need to bring an end to these extortionate prices and give people real choices, by building the homes this nation needs.” UK tenants pay more rent than any country in Europe Read more Roger Harding for the housing charity Shelter said private renters “are bearing the brunt of our dramatic housing shortage”.
(7) City's Mancini, following a series of nervy, half-hearted predecessors less suited to the strange, monumental and messy task of creating a football team in opposition to the extortionate Reds, and remaking history – which Ferguson understood with his own particular combative cunning – has this purpose too, this instinctive perception of how to succeed by channelling uptight regional mentality as well as introducing fresh, resourceful outside skills.
(8) More and more, the new buildings of the super-rich turn their denizens inward, justifying their extortionate prices by offering amenities such as gyms, screening rooms, wine bars and even libraries – and thereby further reducing the street life that any great city depends upon.
(9) The initial 10,000 copies cost an extortionate 12 reichsmark, “the equivalent of 32 kilogrammes of bread”, said one protagonist, or €300-€400 (£215-£290) in today’s money.
(10) It is embarrassing for the company that it failed to protect its own former premises from being squatted and doubly embarrassing that this luxury building, in far better shape than many of the buildings they fill with property guardians, has been left empty when it could have provided low-cost, temporary accommodation – complete with tasteful carpets, luxury shower, high-speed Wi-Fi and air conditioning – to several people priced out of the extortionate London rental market.
(11) This stance now makes Britain one of the few places in the world where consumers can be charged extortionate rates of interest without any form of redress.
(12) Homeswaps A modern house in Rio's Jardim Botanico area, as listed on Love Home Swap's site Another way round the extortionate prices is to consider a home swap.
(13) Yet escaping spiralling rent, extortionate letting agency fees and poorly maintained properties can be an impossible task, despite the introduction of the government's Help to Buy scheme.
(14) Payday loan companies lent money at sometimes extortionate rates, occasionally rising to over 5,000% pa. London property became a form of reserve currency for the world, as wealthy foreigners paid unimaginable sums for houses in which they had no intention of living.
(15) The greater problem was that employers often lured immigrants to this country by offering them places in low-grade houses, charging them extortionate rent, and then paying them unreasonably low wages that undercut the rate for local workers.
(16) It's great value if you need to travel at the last minute and don't want to pay the extortionate prices airlines charge for walk-up fares.
(17) Today even that has become difficult because lots of microfinance companies are now charging extortionate interest rates.
(18) Many of these claimants are workers whose pay is so low that they simply cannot afford the often extortionate rents being charged by private landlords.
(19) "My major concern is that if the fund is withdrawn, people who have nowhere else to go will be forced towards loan sharks who will charge extortionate rates of interest, which could lead to short-term problems escalating to long term troubles," she wrote.
(20) I was earning the minimum wage and all my wages went into paying extortionate rent.