(a.) Occasioning expense; calling for liberal outlay; costly; dear; liberal; as, expensive dress; an expensive house or family.
(a.) Free in expending; very liberal; especially, in a bad scene; extravagant; lavish.
Example Sentences:
(1) Schistosomiasis control currently relies primarily on chemotherapy which is both expensive and temporary.
(2) Their disadvantages - the expensive equipment and the time-consuming procedure respectively - limit their widespread use.
(3) But that gross margin only includes the cost of paying drivers as a cost of revenue, classifying everything else, such as operations, R&D, and sales and marketing, as “operating expenses”.
(4) The data suggest that inhibition of gain in weight with the addition of pyruvate and dihydroxyacetone to the diet is the result of an increased loss of calories as heat at the expense of storage as lipid.
(5) Liu was a driving force behind the modernisation of China's rail system, a project that included building 10,000 miles of high-speed rail track by 2020 – with a budget of £170bn, one of the most expensive engineering feats in recent history.
(6) The capacity of granule-cell networks to separate overlapping patterns of activity on their inputs is adequate, with spatial variability in the secretion at synapses, but is improved if there is also temporal variability in the stochastic secretion at individual synapses, although this is at the expense of reliability in the network.
(7) These preliminary results suggest that IGIV may be more beneficial and less expensive than plasmapheresis in treatment of GBS.
(8) So the government wants a “root and branch” review to decide whether the BBC has “been chasing mass ratings at the expense of its original public service brief” ( BBC faces ‘root and branch’ review of its size and remit , 13 July).
(9) In Europe, for example, the basket of goods tested has fallen 18% in Greece (Corfu) to £57.50, making prices a third cheaper than Italy (Sorrento) at £87.06, the most expensive of six eurozone destinations surveyed.
(10) A senior shadow minister, who has not been named by the Telegraph in its exposé of MPs' expenses , was yesterday asked by county councillors not to campaign for next month's local elections.
(11) Three Labour MPs and a Tory peer will be charged with false accounting in relation to their parliamentary expenses, it was announced today.
(12) Its use is economical of tissue, time, and expense to the patient.
(13) "Android’s gain came mainly at the expense of BlackBerry, which saw its global smartphone share dip from 4 percent to 1 percent in the past year due to a weak line-up of BB10 devices," said Strategy Analytics' senior analyst Scott Bicheno.
(14) Domino’s had been in touch with Driscoll on Thursday morning and was “working to make it up to him ... and to ensure he is not out of pocket for any expenses incurred”.
(15) As the older people have died, younger people have come into the more expensive houses,” he said.
(16) It increases the duration and quality of life without prolonging the time spent in hospital, and it reduces health expenses by 50 to 70%.
(17) The resulting medium is less complicated to maintain, less expensive and supports the growth of human bladder tumor cell lines better than the standard clonogenic assay.
(18) In the muscular bioptates of patients with Duchenne's myopathy as the disease progresses there is a gradual smoothening of the diameter of preserved elements at the expense of almost complete disappearance of hypertrophysed filaments.
(19) Her family paid the [hospital] expenses until she got well," said her friend, Lisa Moussa, 17.
(20) Simultaneously, bone ingrowth at the expense of the ceramic is observed.
Inexpensive
Definition:
(a.) Not expensive; cheap.
Example Sentences:
(1) The design of a small, inexpensive temperature controlled bath (0.25 ml volume) for electrophysiological studies of isolated cells is described.
(2) The construction and use of a simple and inexpensive vacuum cassette for this purpose is described.
(3) The microbiologic assay method, with its rapid, simple, and inexpensive procedures, fulfills such a requirement.
(4) The apparatus can be constructed from commercially available, inexpensive components.
(5) The drug I started taking caused an irritating, chronic cough, which disappeared when I switched to an inexpensive diuretic.
(6) Second, at a time when efforts to improve the safety of commercial factor VIII have led to extraordinary increases in cost, factor VIII from plasma exchange donation promises to be relatively inexpensive.
(7) The 4-methylumbelliferyl-beta-D-galactoside substrate is inexpensive and very stable.
(8) The method is simple, rapid, inexpensive, and very sensitive.
(9) We have developed a rapid, sensitive, and inexpensive method for measuring the cellular protein content of adherent and suspension cultures in 96-well microtiter plates.
(10) The point is simply that the world is full of inexpensive ways to reduce emissions.
(11) The indices are based on patient-level data so they can be aggregated at any level (hospital, specialty, physician), are easy to use and interpret by hospitals, and provide an inexpensive method for evaluating hospital performance using existing databases.
(12) On the other hand, if the world population grew to 1-2 billion fertile women, the million tons of contraceptive steroids needed would require an inexpensive total synthesis.
(13) The equipment is relatively inexpensive, and can be used by a small laboratory for efficient, controlled smoke exposure studies.
(14) An inexpensive, easy-to-use detector for measuring airborne 222Rn based on 222Rn diffusion and absorption in activated charcoal is presented.
(15) The roentgenoscopical search of coronary calcification is considered to be a valuable procedure since it is inexpensive, noninvasive and widely applicable.
(16) Intraoperative assessment of the depth of myometrial invasion is a simple, inexpensive, and useful technique for selecting those patients with stage I endometrial adenocarcinoma who might benefit from selective para-aortic lymphadenectomy.
(17) The method is easy to learn, the materials and animal subjects are inexpensive, and the preparation is fully monitored to provide consistent and reproducible data.
(18) This test is a rapid, inexpensive alternative to current 48- to 72-h methods in which broth turbidity is used as the end point.
(19) It is suggested that this simple, inexpensive technique of sampling cells from the ovarian surface should be continued to be practised on all occasions at which ovaries present such as at laparotomy or at laparoscopy, as with further experience this technique may prove to be of help in the early diagnosis of ovarian carcinoma.
(20) Accordingly, this new refractometer for the TWEL proved to be sensitive, dependable and also inexpensive.