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comparative more expensive, superlative most expensive
(obsolete) Given to expending a lot of money; profligate, lavish. quotations
[H]e had been very expensive when abroad; and contracted a large debt […].
1748, [Samuel Richardson], chapter 4, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume I, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […]
[T]hus naturally generous and expensive, he squandered away his money, and made a most splendid appearance upon the receipt of his quarterly appointment […] .
1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […]
Having a high price or cost. quotations examples
If successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move society away from the ever more expensive and then universally known killing hazards of gasoline cars: […] .
2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal Combustion
[…] a new study of how Starbucks has largely avoided paying tax in Britain […] shows that current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate […] “stateless income”: […]. […] the firm has in effect turned the process of making an expensive cup of coffee into intellectual property.
2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68
(computing) Taking a lot of system time or resources. examples