expensive

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From Latin expensivus, from expendere, compare expense

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  • (UK) IPA: /ɪkˈspɛnsɪv/
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expensive (comparative more expensive, superlative most expensive)

  1. 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: […] .
  2. (computing) taking a lot of system time or resources
    an unnecessarily expensive choice of algorithm

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