| 词汇 | costliness |
| 释义 | costliness noun[ U ] uk /ˈkɒst.li.nəs/ us /ˈkɑːst.li.nəs/ costlinessnoun[U] (HIGH PRICE)the fact of being expensive or too expensive: 昂贵 The hotel is very popular, despite its costliness.尽管价格昂贵，这家旅馆还是很受欢迎。 People still use this credit without realizing its costliness.人们仍然在使用这种信贷方式，却没有意识到它成本高昂。 Despite the costliness of this best rated vacuum cleaner, it still catches the attention of consumers. The costliness of deportation is enormous and the results it obtains doubtful. London, Rome or Paris were extremely expensive - with all the allure and social cachet that costliness implies. Costing too much bottomless pit capital intensive cheap cheap at half the priceidiom cost an arm and a leg/a small fortuneidiom cost someone a pretty pennyidiom cost someone dearidiom daylight robbery dear dearness exorbitant gouge pretty price fixing price someone out price yourself out of the marketidiom prohibitive prohibitively prohibitory sight You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Expensive & luxurious costlinessnoun[U] (HIGH DAMAGE)the fact of involving a lot of loss or damage: The film is about the hopeless costliness of war. The costliness of that miss was emphasized when the opposition scored again, making it 2-0. Her attitude is a case study in the costliness of preferring to be negative rather than positive. The harsh realities of life provide penalties which teach individuals about the costliness of their misdemeanours. Destroying and demolishing annihilate annihilation apocalypse bash bash through (something) be sacrificed on the altar of somethingidiom costly erosion erosional erosionally erosive extirpate saboteur sack sacking sacrifice scarred self-destruct sink wipe Seecostly Examples of costlinesscostliness The costliness and ineffectiveness of these measures were demonstrated in 1876 and again in 1880. Given the newness and costliness of many technologies selected for assessment, a significant emphasis was placed on assessing the safety and efficacy of these devices. That approach emphasizes the costliness of bearing risk and the role of risk aversion in preventing the movement of resources to their highest-valued use. Forestry officials were increasingly despised by woodland proprietors for their indolence, costliness, and corruption. Complaints about the costliness of slack in the road agencies started to replace arguments about safeguarding infrastructure quality through public planning and control. There are, however, in the present state of knowledge, certain practical objections, apart from the costliness of the procedure, to such frequent treatment. It is clear that the focus of this theoretical contention is the costliness of litigation to a defendant. Implementation of a subjective standard requires that the costliness of taking care be determined for each defendant. As in this paper, household-specific shadow prices for the products measure the costliness of the products to a household and are assumed to increase with environmental degradation. However, it may be that it is not the costliness of these signals that matters so much as it is the conversations they generate, particularly through repeated play. Much has been said about the costliness of the organisations of the milk trade. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are certain directions in which the costliness of building can be reduced. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The costliness and the waste of the transport of minerals in this country can only be described as a scandal. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have a legal system of great costliness. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I will not deal with the costliness of other parts of the measure. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of costliness These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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