What does expensive mean?

Definitions for expensive
ɪkˈspɛn sɪvex·pen·sive

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. expensiveadjective

    high in price or charging high prices

    "expensive clothes"; "an expensive shop"

Wiktionary

  1. expensiveadjective

    having a high price or cost

  2. expensiveadjective

    taking a lot of system time or resources

    an unnecessarily expensive choice of algorithm

  3. Etymology: From expensivus, from expendere, compare expense

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Expensiveadjective

    Etymology: from expense.

    Frugal and industrious men are friendly to the established government, as the idle and expensive are dangerous. William Temple.

    This requires an active, expensive, indefatigable goodness, such as our apostle calls a work and labour of love. Thomas Sprat.

Wikipedia

  1. expensive

    In production, research, retail, and accounting, a cost is the value of money that has been used up to produce something or deliver a service, and hence is not available for use anymore. In business, the cost may be one of acquisition, in which case the amount of money expended to acquire it is counted as cost. In this case, money is the input that is gone in order to acquire the thing. This acquisition cost may be the sum of the cost of production as incurred by the original producer, and further costs of transaction as incurred by the acquirer over and above the price paid to the producer. Usually, the price also includes a mark-up for profit over the cost of production. More generalized in the field of economics, cost is a metric that is totaling up as a result of a process or as a differential for the result of a decision. Hence cost is the metric used in the standard modeling paradigm applied to economic processes. Costs (pl.) are often further described based on their timing or their applicability.

ChatGPT

  1. expensive

    Expensive refers to something that costs a high amount of money or requires a significant amount of resources or effort to obtain or maintain. It is typically used in relation to the price of goods, services or experiences that are considered high compared to similar offerings or average affordability.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Expensiveadjective

    occasioning expense; calling for liberal outlay; costly; dear; liberal; as, expensive dress; an expensive house or family

  2. Expensiveadjective

    free in expending; very liberal; especially, in a bad scene; extravagant; lavish

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'expensive' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1932

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'expensive' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1076

  3. Adjectives Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'expensive' in Adjectives Frequency: #230

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of expensive in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of expensive in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of expensive in a Sentence

  1. Yuya Kusakari:

    It's really not all that available now, and it's expensive.

  2. Michael Kleinrock:

    The thinking is that rather than having employers offer an expensive suite of healthcare plans and options to employees, another option would be to commit a fixed dollar amount to the workers for their healthcare coverage and let the employees choose the type of coverage that’s right for them.

  3. Actor Dean Cain:

    The irony of protecting cop-haters, particularly wealthy, entitled, elitist cop-haters like Quentin Tarantino, is not lost on the police officers who struggle to support their families in the most expensive city in America.New York City police officers regularly find themselves putting their lives on the line to protect the rights of those who wrongfully and often in a very vile manner, criticize the very officers who are ensuring their right to be heard.We are professional police officers.It’s part of the job and we do it with pride. if he’s going to be a man of his word and stick to calling them murderers, then he should have his premiere without them, and let’s see how they work out.

  4. Pedro Gonzalez:

    They're too expensive. I've only been to the ones where I play myself.

  5. Caroline Bain:

    The devaluation will make commodities more expensive for China to import, so I would imagine that is the main reason for the negative reaction.

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