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UK
/pɹəhˈɪbɪtˌɪvli/
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[ US /pɹoʊˈhɪbətɪvɫi/ ]
[ US /pɹoʊˈhɪbətɪvɫi/ ]
ADVERB
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to a prohibitive degree
it is prohibitively expensive
How To Use prohibitively In A Sentence
- At least the State of California limits its total liability to a paltry $5K in exchange for a prohibitively expensive premium, that even if a person chose to insure herself against would not pay the bulldozers pushing the debris to one side or the other, as no amount of money makes these liabilities "insurable" to even the most profligage premium payer. Balkinization
- While sedentary work represents a significantly restricted range of work, this range in itself is not so prohibitively restricted as to negate work capability for substantial gainful activity.
- The bank may reboot its bond-buying program, a boon for debt-strapped Eurozone countries squeezed by prohibitively high funding costs.
- Poison pills are designed to make it prohibitively expensive for a predator to take over a company.
- A word of caution is necessary with regard to prototyping - prototyping everything that is unknown or fuzzy can be impossible or prohibitively expensive.
- It would be prohibitively expensive to haul away the material, they say, and there are no waste sites in the area.
- Today, of course, ivory is hard to find and almost prohibitively expensive.
- Those medicines that are available are prohibitively expensive. Times, Sunday Times
- Its portfolio of big fields in Africa has long been coveted by larger rivals but its share price was seen as prohibitively high. Times, Sunday Times
- Unfortunately, recoating the entire fort with lime, a historically accurate solution, would be prohibitively expensive at this time.