expensive

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From Latin expensivus, from expendere, compare expense

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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: […] .
    • 2013 June 22, “T time”, The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68: 
      […] a new study of how Starbucks has largely avoided paying tax in Britain […] shows that current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate […] “stateless income”: […]. […] the firm has in effect turned the process of making an expensive cup of coffee into intellectual property.
  2. (computing) Taking a lot of system time or resources.
    an unnecessarily expensive choice of algorithm

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