expensively

expensive | American Dictionary

expensive
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/ɪkˈspen·sɪv/
costing a lot of money:
Housing in this part of the country is very expensive.

expensively

adverb[ not gradable ]us/ɪkˈspen·sɪv·li/
She was expensively dressed.

expensive | Business English

expensive
adjective
uk /ɪkˈspensɪv/us
costing a lot of money:
Business class travel has become very expensive.
He was looking for insurance to cover the expensive equipment in his home office.
sth is expensive to doOlder houses are expensive to maintain.
prohibitively/extremely/hugely expensive

Examples of expensive

expensive
We also suspected that the timber solutions would be more expensive.
Institutional funds may need expensive computer systems for administration, accounting, and reporting requirements.
Local finance is too expensive under structural adjustment to make agricultural marketing profitable.
Staff time is both valuable and expensive and a more economic model of assessment procedures could be developed.
They are also less expensive and thus should be preferred for first-step t reatment in older patients.
Aggregating at this level might be empirically difficult or expensive, but makes sense theoretically.
For instance, a person with very extensive care needs is usually referred to institutional care because home-care would be much more expensive.
Thus, an experienced, talented embroiderer working on the panels for elaborate, expensive dresses could expect to earn, at most, slightly less than £80 per year.
The virtual nature of a computer-based training simulation enables training to be accomplished without risking damage to man or in most cases to expensive equipment.
Moreover, the method is easily available in the laboratory, less expensive and user-friendly for guiding physicians to the proper treatment of typhoid fever.
All would provide federal financial assistance to the uninsured (based on income) to make the cost of care less expensive.
Furthermore, more expressive languages may be too computationally expensive to use automated reasoning technology.
Finally, we have shown that highly expressed proteins tend to use energetically less expensive amino acids.
Any alterations at proof stage, apart from the correction of printer's misprints, are expensive and must be avoided.
Whatever their merits and promise, these physiologically-based techniques are more complex, and in many instances considerably more expensive to use, than verbal response alone.
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