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    • 1.4.2 Derived terms
    • 1.4.3 Related terms
    • 1.4.4 Translations
  • 1.5 See also
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Alternative forms

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• expencive (archaic)

Etymology

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From Latin *expēnsīvus, from expendō (“to weigh out (money), to pay out”) (whence English expend).[1] By surface analysis, expense +‎ -ive. In the sense of "high-priced" has largely displaced dear.

Pronunciation

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• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɪkˈspɛnsɪv/, /ɛkˈspɛnsɪv/

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Adjective

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expensive (comparative more expensive, superlative most expensive)

1. Having a high price or cost. Synonyms: costly, high-priced, pricey, dear; see also Thesaurus:expensive Antonyms: cheap, inexpensive, low-priced
   • 2006, Edwin Black, “The Plan Against Oil”, in Internal Combustion: How Corporations and Governments Addicted the World to Oil and Derailed the Alternatives, New York: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 2: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: air and water pollution, noise and noxiousness, constant coughing and the undeniable rise in cancers caused by smoke exhaust particulates.
   • 2013 June 22, “The G8 summit: T time”, in The Economist‎[1], London: The Economist Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 9 July 2013:In Starbucks’s case, 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
3. (obsolete) Given to expending a lot of money; profligate, lavish.
   • 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter IV. Miſs Clarissa Harlowe, To Miſs Howe.”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume I, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson;  […], →OCLC, page 22:[…] And that he looked into his own affairs, and underſtood them; That he had, when abroad, been very expenſive; and contracted a large debt (for he made no ſecret of his affairs); […]
   • 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, chapter XXV, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume I, London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC, page 186:[…] thus naturally generous and expenſive, he ſquandered away his money, and made a moſt ſplendid appearance upon the receipt of his quarterly appointment; […]
4. (cricket) Having a high economy rate. Antonym: economical

Usage notes

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• Not to be confused with expansive.

Derived terms

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• expenny
• expensive drunk
• expensively
• expensiveness
• inexpensive
• it's too expensive
• nonexpensive
• spenno
• spenny
• spensive
• 'spensive
• superexpensive
• ultraexpensive
• unexpensive

Related terms

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• expend
• expenditure
• expense

Translations

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Afrikaans: duur (af) Albanian: shtrenjtë (sq), kushtueshëm (sq) Amharic: ዉድ (wud) Arabic: غَالٍ (ḡālin) (indefinite), الْغَالِي (al-ḡālī) (definite), مُكَلَّف (mukallaf) Egyptian Arabic: غالي (ḡāli) Armenian: թանկ (hy) (tʻank) Assamese: দামী (dami), মহঙা (mohoṅa) Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܝܲܩܘܼܪ ܛܝܼܡܹ̈ܐ m (yaqūr ṭīmē) Asturian: caru Avar: хирияб (xirijab) Azerbaijani: bahalı (az), baha (az) Bashkir: ҡиммәт (qimmət), ҡыйбат (qıybat) Belarusian: дарагі́ (darahí) Bengali: ব্যয়বহুল (bn) (bêẏbohul) Bulgarian: скъп (bg) (skǎp) Burmese: ရှား (my) (hra:), ဈေးကြီး (my) (jhe:kri:), ကြေးကြီး (my) (kre:kri:), အဖိုးကြီး (my) (a.hpui:kri:) Carpathian Rusyn: дорогы́й (dorohŷ́j) Catalan: car (ca) Cebuano: mahal Chamicuro: kajso'no tsakala Chechen: деза (deza), еза (jeza) Chichewa: yodula Chinese: Cantonese: 貴 / 贵 (gwai3) Dungan: гуй (guy) Hokkien: 貴 / 贵 (zh-min-nan) (kùi) Mandarin: 貴 / 贵 (zh) (guì), 昂貴 / 昂贵 (zh) (ángguì) Crimean Tatar: paalı Czech: drahý (cs), nákladný (cs) Danish: dyr (da) Dutch: duur (nl) Esperanto: multekosta (eo), altepreza Estonian: kallis (et) Faroese: dýrur Finnish: kallis (fi) French: cher (fr), coûteux (fr) Friulian: cjâr, čhâr Galician: caro (gl) Georgian: ძვირი (ʒviri), ძვირადღირებული (ʒviradɣirebuli) German: teuer (de), kostspielig (de) Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐌻𐌰𐌿𐍆𐍃 (galaufs) Greek: ακριβός (el) (akrivós) Ancient: πολυτελής (polutelḗs) Gujarati: મોંઘું (moṅghũ) Haitian Creole: chè Hebrew: יָקָר (he) (yaqar) Hindi: महँगा (hi) (mahaṅgā), बहुमूल्य (hi) (bahumūlya), क़ीमती (qīmtī) Hungarian: drága (hu) Icelandic: dýr (is) Ido: chera (io) Indonesian: mahal (id) Ingrian: kallis Ingush: деза (deza), еза (jeza) Interlingua: car Irish: costasach, daor, costasúil, mórluachach Italian: caro (it), costoso (it), dispendioso (it) Japanese: 高い (ja) (たかい, takai) Javanese: larang (jv), awis Kazakh: қымбат (qymbat) Khmer: ថ្លៃ (km) (thlay) Korean: 비싸다 (ko) (bissada) Krio: dia Kurdish: Central Kurdish: گران (gran) Kyrgyz: кымбат (ky) (kımbat) Lao: ແພງ (phǣng) Latin: pretiōsus, cārus (la), impensus Latvian: dārgs Lithuanian: brangus (lt) Lü: ᦶᦗᧂ (paeng) Luxembourgish: deier Macedonian: скап (skap) Malay: mahal (ms) Malayalam: ചെലവേറിയ (celavēṟiya) Maltese: għaljin Mansaka: maal Manx: ard-leaghoil Marathi: महाग (mahāg) Mauritian Creole: ser Mizo: to Mongolian: Cyrillic: үнэтэй (mn) (ünetej) Navajo: ílį́įnii Nepali: महँगो (mahãgo), बहुमुल्य (ne) (bahumulya) Ngazidja Comorian: ghali, hali Norwegian: Bokmål: dyr (no), kostbar Nynorsk: dyr Occitan: car (oc) Old Church Slavonic: Cyrillic: драгъ (dragŭ) Old English: dīere Pashto: ګران (grân), قيمته (qimáta) Persian: Dari: گِرَان (girān), قِیمَت (qīmat) Iranian Persian: گِران (gerân) Plautdietsch: dia Polish: drogi (pl) Portuguese: caro (pt) Punjabi: Gurmukhi: ਮਹਿੰਗਾ (mahiṅgā) Romanian: scump (ro), costisitor (ro) Russian: дорого́й (ru) (dorogój) Sanskrit: बहुमूल्य (sa) (bahumūlya), महार्घ (sa) (mahārgha) Scottish Gaelic: cosgail, daor Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ску̑п Roman: skȕp (sh) Seychellois Creole: ser Shan: please add this translation if you can Sindhi: महांगो Sinhalese: ගණං (gaṇaṁ) Slovak: drahý Slovene: drag (sl) Somali: qaali Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: drogi Upper Sorbian: drohi Southern Amami Ōshima: たはさん (tahasan) Southern Altai: кыймат (kïymat) Spanish: caro (es), costoso (es), dispendioso (es), oneroso (es), gravoso (es), cariola (p.u., Peru) Sundanese: awis (su) Swahili: gali (sw) Swedish: dyr (sv), kostsam (sv) Tagalog: mahal (tl) Tajik: гарон (tg) (garon), қимат (qimat) Tamil: விலையுயர்ந்த (vilaiyuyarnta) Tatar: кыйбат (qıybat) Tausug: mahalga' Telugu: ఖరీదైన (te) (kharīdaina) Thai: แพง (th) (pɛɛng) Tibetan: གྲོན་ཆེ (gron che), གྲོན་ཆེན (gron chen), གུན་པོ (gun po), གུས་པོ (gus po) Tigrinya: ክቡር (kəbur) Turkish: pahalı (tr) Turkmen: gymmat Ukrainian: дороги́й (uk) (dorohýj), кошто́вний (uk) (koštóvnyj) Urdu: مَہَن٘گا (mahaṅgā), قِیمْتی (qīmtī) Uyghur: قىممەت (qimmet) Uzbek: qimmat (uz) Venetan: caro Vietnamese: đắt (vi), đắt tiền, mắc (vi) Volapük: jerik (vo) Walloon: tchir (wa) Welsh: drud (cy) White Hmong: kim, tsis pheejyig Yiddish: טייַער (tayer) Zhuang: bengz Zulu: -dula, -biza

See also

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• overpriced
• $$$

References

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1. ^ “expensive”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

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