(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.