Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word EXPENSIVE

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Definitions of EXPENSIVE

1. Having a high price or cost.
2. (obsolete) Given to expending a lot of money; profligate, lavish.
3. (computing) Taking a lot of system time or resources.

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Examples of Using EXPENSIVE in a Sentence

• The Acorn Electron (nicknamed the Elk inside Acorn) was a lower-cost alternative to the BBC Micro educational/home computer, also developed by Acorn Computers, to provide many of the features of that more expensive machine at a price more competitive with that of the ZX Spectrum.
• Steered from 1947 by David Brown, it became associated with expensive grand touring cars in the 1950s and 1960s, and with the fictional character James Bond following his use of a DB5 model in the 1964 film Goldfinger.
• In practice, almost all computers use a storage hierarchy, which puts fast but expensive and small storage options close to the CPU and slower but less expensive and larger options further away.
• Costume or fashion jewelry includes a range of decorative items worn for personal adornment that are manufactured as less expensive ornamentation to complement a particular fashionable outfit or garment as opposed to "real" (fine) jewelry, which is more costly and which may be regarded primarily as collectibles, keepsakes, or investments.
• Also, computer-generated animations allow a single graphic artist to produce such content without using actors, expensive set pieces, or props.
• Main memory operates at a high speed compared to mass storage which is slower but less expensive per bit and higher in capacity.
• Formula Two had become too expensive, and was dominated by works-run cars with factory engines; the hope was that Formula 3000 would offer quicker, cheaper, more open racing.
• This is due to the city's isolation and heavy dependence on expensive imported supplies, as the city, like the rest of Nunavut, has no road or rail, and only has ship connections for part of the year to the rest of Canada.
• Transport in Japan is also very expensive in international comparison, reflecting high tolls and taxes, particularly on automobile transport.
• 1430 – Philip the Good, the Duke of Burgundy, establishes the Order of the Golden Fleece, the most prestigious, exclusive, and expensive order of chivalry in the world.
• The first type of setup is class-level setup in which a computationally expensive object, such as a database connection, is created and reused, with minimal side effects.
• In 2002, a more expensive, high-end product called "Kahlúa Especial" became available in the United States, Canada and Australia after previously being offered only in duty-free markets.
• A variety of string types are used, with steel strings being the most common and usually the least expensive.
• The principality is home to 38,682 residents, of whom 9,486 are Monégasque nationals; it is recognised as one of the wealthiest and most expensive places in the world.
• The wreck of the Mary Rose was located in 1971 and was raised on 11 October 1982 by the Mary Rose Trust in one of the most complex and expensive maritime salvage projects in history.
• The design team had formerly worked at Motorola on the Motorola 6800 project; the 6502 is essentially a simplified, less expensive and faster version of that design.
• The 68HC11 devices are more powerful and more expensive than the 68HC08 microcontrollers and are used in automotive applications, barcode readers, hotel card key writers, amateur robotics, and various other embedded systems.
• This process is an important part of any release because of the inherent high financial risk; film studios will invest in expensive marketing campaigns to maximize revenue early in the release cycle.
• This method is preferred over other methods of nitric acid production, in that it is less expensive and more efficient.
• At that time, aluminium was as expensive as silver and was used mostly for luxury items and jewellery.
• Parchment was made of lamb, calf, or kid skin and was expensive and not readily available, so, in the interest of economy, a page was often re-used by scraping off the previous writing.
• At the time of the first PDPs, computers had a reputation of being large, complicated, and expensive machines.
• Pipes can range from very simple machine-made briar models to highly prized hand-made artisanal implements made by renowned pipemakers, which are often very expensive collector's items.
• As modern militaries emerged in the 19th century, the samurai were rendered increasingly obsolete and very expensive to maintain compared to the average conscript soldier.
• Sometimes unfiltered and porridge-like, it was a favoured drink in Medieval Europe and colonial North America compared with more expensive beer containing higher levels of alcohol.

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