expensiveness
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ex·pen·sive
(ĭk-spĕn′sĭv)adj.
1. Requiring a large expenditure; costly.
2. Marked by high prices: expensive stores.
ex·pen′sive·ly adv.
ex·pen′sive·ness n.
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Noun | 1. | expensiveness - the quality of being high-priced monetary value, price, cost - the property of having material worth (often indicated by the amount of money something would bring if sold); "the fluctuating monetary value of gold and silver"; "he puts a high price on his services"; "he couldn't calculate the cost of the collection" lavishness, sumptuosity, sumptuousness, luxury - the quality possessed by something that is excessively expensive inexpensiveness - the quality of being affordable |
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Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
expensiveness
n (of goods, travel, services etc) → hoher Preis, Kostspieligkeit f; (of living somewhere) → Kostspieligkeit f; the expensiveness of her tastes → ihr teurer Geschmack; the increasing expensiveness of basic commodities → die ständige Verteuerung von Grundbedarfsmitteln
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
expensiveness
[ɪksˈpɛnsɪvnɪs] n → dispendiositàCollins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995