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Webster 1913 Edition
Expensive
Ex-pen′sive
,Adj.
1.
Occasioning expense; calling for liberal outlay; costly; dear; liberal;
as,
expensive
dress; an expensive
house or family.War is
expensive
, and peace desirable. Burke.
2.
Free in expending; very liberal; especially, in a bad sense: extravagant; lavish.
[R.]
An active,
– expensive
, indefatigable goodness. Sprat.
Ex-pen′sive-ly
, adv.
Ex-pen′sive-ness
, Noun.
Webster 1828 Edition
Expensive
EXPENS'IVE
,Adj.
1.
Given to expense; free in the use of money; extravagant; lavish; applied to persons. Of men, some are frugal and industrious; others, idle land expensive.2.
Liberal; generous in the distribution of property.This requires an active, expensive, indefatigable goodness.
Definition 2024
expensive
expensive
English
Alternative forms
- expencive (archaic)
Adjective
expensive (comparative more expensive, superlative most expensive)
- Having a high price or cost.
- 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal Combustion:
- 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”, in 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.
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- (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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