expensive
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- expencive (archaic)
Etymology [edit]
From Latin expensivus, from expendere, compare expense
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expensive (comparative more expensive, superlative most expensive)
- having a high price or cost
- 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, Internal Combustion[1]:
- If successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move society away from the ever more expensive and then universally known killing hazards of gasoline cars: […] .
- 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, Internal Combustion[1]:
- (computing) taking a lot of system time or resources
- an unnecessarily expensive choice of algorithm
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having a high price or cost
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