(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.
Priceyness
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Toronto Cheapest for salmon Pricey for almost everything else Canada's biggest city came out the surprise loser in our survey, with our basket of goods costing 40% more in Toronto than in Berlin.
(2) Check out Hamleys' predictions for this year's top Christmas toys , and you'll see a list dominated by pricey novelties: a breakdancing Mickey Mouse, a Barbie with an alarming fragile-looking articulated pony, a baby tablet that shoves "educational games" under your baby's nose.
(3) If I stay here" – he lives with his girlfriend in Manhattan's increasingly pricey Lower East Side – "I'm invariably going to end up hanging out with extremely rich people.
(4) It is ubiquitous, yet coveted, pricey yet just about affordable.
(5) Meat has become impossibly pricey for many families.
(6) If you leave aside Champagne, which has no serious rivals at the top end, I think you can find very good alternatives to pricey red Bordeaux, Sauternes, red and white Burgundy, northern Rhône Syrah and Châteauneuf du Pape in other countries, and sometimes within France itself.
(7) One of the chefs at Mirazur told me he likes to eat at Le Petit Port (+33 4 93 35 82 62, 4 rue du Jonquier, about £60pp) on his days off: it's a more upmarket (read pricey) bistro with local specialities.
(8) In the UK, where channels spend less on a 20-part series than CBS does on James Corden’s nightly hair gel allowance, a new show would be a pricey gamble.
(9) Paris Cheapest for wine, onions Pricey for milk, lamb, bananas paris Freelance journalist Judith Prescott (above), who has lived in the French capital for two decades, shops at supermarket chain Auchan for her husband and two daughters, and reckons her bill is around €100 a week (£79), although that doesn't include the fruit and veg she tends to buy in local markets.
(10) If these pricey pandas ever rear healthy cubs in Edinburgh Zoo, I'll dance naked down the Royal Mile.
(11) Pros: Effortless setup; plays internet radio and Napster subscription Cons: Pricey; functions can be done by cheaper rival products sonos.com
(12) But not Dimitar Berbatov – far too pricey for a low wage economy like ours.
(13) The museum is probably a nice addition for tourists, but it is also excessive in a way.” Lily, from Serbia, said that though “it was a nice representation, I do feel the price of $15 is a bit pricey, especially for Cambodians.” Neil, also from the UK, added: “The panorama is impressive, but with the main Angkor temples a few kilometres away, the trip may not be worth it for most tourists.” The writer regularly visits North Korea for academic purposes and is writing under a pseudonym
(14) I pondered this as I sat in my regrettably pricey train seat on the way to the UK's first Festival of Thrift last weekend, held in Darlington.
(15) Some of the worst losses come not from pricey insurance or energy bills, but from failing to move savings account regularly.
(16) At £360 for groups of up to six, Alex’s tour is on the pricey side but he has spent years investigating Dartmoor’s myths and legends and aims to help visitors understand why this place and its people inspired Conan Doyle.
(17) While supermarkets have been steadily cutting the cost of uniforms ( last month Aldi launched a basic uniform for £4 ), the rise of academies and free schools, which often require parents to buy pricey, branded garments from one agreed supplier, have increased the financial burden for many parents.
(18) We felt our phone bill was a bit pricey, so the next year we changed to incoming calls only.
(19) And it lends sums of £100 to £1,000 at 26.8%, which may sound pricey to the middle classes, but is one-hundreth the rate charged by the payday merchants.
(20) Have an incredibly pricey (£1,295) bookshelf on me, Ann Clwyd.