prohibitively

prohibitive | American Dictionary

prohibitive
adjective
us/proʊˈhɪb·ɪ·t̬ɪv, prə-/
(of costs) too expensive to pay:
The cost of a nursing home is prohibitive.

prohibitively

adverbus/proʊˈhɪb·ɪ·t̬ɪv·li, prə-/
Fees are prohibitively expensive.

prohibitive | Business English

prohibitive
adjective
uk /prəʊˈhɪbətɪv/ us /prəˈhɪbətɪv/
too expensive for most people:
prohibitive costs/fees/ratesGreen groups have been unable to challenge instances of pollution in court because of prohibitive costs.
He'd like to use locally grown cottonseed or peanuts to create biofuel, but prices remain prohibitive.
be prohibitive for sbRents in the area are prohibitive for many households.
preventing something from being done, or preventing others from succeeding:
She is the prohibitive favorite to win the Democratic nomination.
prohibitive laws/legislation

Examples of prohibitive

prohibitive
Secondly, even if it was possible, the performance cost of checking all array stores would be prohibitive.
However, the prohibitive amount of calculations necessary make any definite statements on the range of validity impossible.
In any case, readers should realize that developing large item pools is quite costly and may prove to be prohibitive for some.
In some areas such as insider trading, judges may be unwilling to bear prohibitive search costs of investigation.
According to the interviews, seal and beluga hunts often require long trips, making the operation costs of a canoe with an outboard engine prohibitive.
Even when a specific individual imposed prohibitive agreements on the community, it was the people who punished violators, not the one who conferred the agreement.
That said, there is little reason to believe that implementation costs for informal sources are, in general, prohibitive.
In the ideal situation, prohibitive agreements actually reflected the latent wishes of the villagers and what they wanted the authorities to do.
Finally, the computational complexity and usefulness of the machine-proposed variables and constraints, resulting from qualitative system identification, may be prohibitive in practical applications.
A great deal of the prohibitive dialogue has disappeared (though not all).
Without increases in budgets for staff training within general practice, the costs of developing a solid knowledge base may be prohibitive.
However, the cost of a sufficient number of boluses to treat adult cattle could be prohibitive.
Likewise, the difficulty in obtaining high quality micronutrient fertilizers and spreading them evenly on the soil can be prohibitive.
While a large number of small tasks results in good load balancing, the organizational overhead becomes prohibitive.
The unknown variables introduced by donor plasma in the priming volume are prohibitive of predicting the effect of heparin based on sensitivity and dilution calculations.
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