Definitions
high in price or charging high prices
Word origin
From Latin *expēnsīvus, from expendō (“to weigh out (money), to pay out”) (whence English expend). By surface analysis, expense + -ive. In the sense of "high-priced" has largely displaced dear.
Used in a sentence
“In Starbucks’s case, the firm has in effect turned the process of making an expensive cup of coffee into intellectual property.”
“an unnecessarily expensive choice of algorithm”
“[…] 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); […]”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Costing a lot”9 letters
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