If you are not careful, you will incur prohibitive expenses.
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Prohibitive
//pɹəˈhɪbɪtɪv//
Synonyms for "prohibitive" (73 found)
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18 translations across 5 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- نَهْي noun (negative imperative)
French
1 entries- défense noun (negative imperative)
German
4 entries- ausschließend adj (tending to prohibit, preclude or disallow)
- prohibitiv adj (unreasonably costly)
- prohibitorisch adj (tending to prohibit, preclude or disallow)
- unbezahlbar adj (unreasonably costly)
Russian
2 entries- запретительный adj (unreasonably costly)
- непомерно высокий adj (unreasonably costly)
Spanish
2 entries- prohibitivo adj (tending to prohibit, preclude or disallow)
- prohibitivo adj (unreasonably costly)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
The cost was prohibitive.
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I must admit that lately living in the city has become almost prohibitive.
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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.
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