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Adjective
/ikˈspensiv/,
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Costing a lot of money,
  1. Costing a lot of money
    • - keeping a horse is expensive
    • - an expensive bottle of wine

  1. high in price or charging high prices; "expensive clothes"; "an expensive shop"
  2. (expensively) in an expensive manner; "an expensively dressed little man turned a corner and approached her"
  3. (expensiveness) the quality of being high-priced
  4. In business, retail, and accounting, a cost is the value of money that has been used up to produce something, and hence is not available for use anymore. In economics, a cost is an alternative that is given up as a result of a decision. ...
  5. having a high price, cost
  6. adj. – entailing great expense; very high-priced; costly
  7. ARM: costing an individual more than what he voluntarily wants or is willing to pay; consuming more resources than desired; may require less consumption in other areas. ...
  8. It’s not necessarily a bad thing when something costs a lot of money, as long as you can afford it, buying it fits in with your goals and it is a good value for the money.
  9. Cost accounting is expensive and requires reconciliation with financial records.
  10. ka galan (literally - too heavy)