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prohibitive meaning

[ prə'hibitiv, prəu- ]   Pronunciation:
Synonyms of "prohibitive""prohibitive" in a sentence

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  • Adjective: prohibitive  prow'hibitiv or pru'hibitiv
    1. Tending to discourage (especially of prices)
      "the price was prohibitive"
      - prohibitory

    See also: preventative, preventive, prohibitively


  • [Business]
    AmE also / adjective

    1

    (about a price or a cost) so high that it prevents people from buying sth or doing sth:

    the prohibitive costs of entry into media ownership

    Three estimates were received but the prices were prohibitive.

    a prohibitive tax on imported cars

    2

    preventing people from doing sth by law:

    prohibitive legislation

    prohibitively adverb:

    Car insurance can be prohibitively expensive for young drivers.

Examples

  • Unfortunately, the cost of equipment is prohibitive.
  • The expense is prohibitive.
  • The cost of education becomes prohibitive to lower-income families.
  • The work involved in testing numerous seedlings in this manner has been prohibitive.
  • The unsteadiness of air becomes prohibitive only if instruments with large focal length are used.
  • Collection costs for garbage would be prohibitive in rural areas because of the dispersed population.
  • Computers are gradually overcoming such obstacles as the shortage of courseware and prohibitive school system budgets.
  • The cost of property in the city is prohibitive
  • The cost of making them by hand is prohibitive
  • The cost of travel to the far east is prohibitive
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