Prohibitive

If you are not careful, you will incur prohibitive expenses.

The cost was prohibitive.

I must admit that lately living in the city has become almost prohibitive.

For many would-be entrepreneurs, the cost of opening a store in New York and other U.S. cities is prohibitive. But from coast-to-coast, the traditional model for retail stores is taking a new direction — on four wheels.

The cost of entry to some gigs is prohibitive.

Some countries are more prohibitive than others when it comes to hot topics like euthanasia and cloning.

I'd like to visit Europe someday, but the cost is prohibitive right now.

The economics of rebuilding all the stations covered by the electrification would be prohibitive, but to help bring home to the Glasgow public that their North Clyde suburban service has been transformed, not merely re-equipped with new trains, stations have at least been associated psychologically with the rolling stock by a common colour scheme.

Hendy has come out as something of an evangelist for discontinuous electrification. For Waterloo-Exeter, this could make real sense on a route where the high capital cost of wiring or third rail all the way to Devon would be prohibitive. But what about his vocal support for it on East West Rail, which is effectively a brand new line?

“I think there’s no question about that. I think he’s the prohibitive favorite if he gets in,” Dennis Lennox, a Michigan-based Republican political consultant, told Politico.