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cost-prohibitive

cost-prohibitive adjective: overly expensive; unaffordable.

Adjective

cost-prohibitive (not comparable)

  1. (euphemistic) Overly expensive; unaffordable.

Questions about cost-prohibitive

What does cost-prohibitive mean?
Cost-prohibitive means overly expensive; unaffordable.
What part of speech is cost-prohibitive?
Cost-prohibitive is an adjective.

Words near cost-prohibitive in the dictionary

  1. cost-effective
  2. cost-effectively
  3. cost-effectiveness
  4. cost-efficient
  5. cost-free
  6. cost-prohibitive
  7. cost-push inflation
  8. cost-saving
  9. cost-wise
  10. costa
  11. Costa Blanca

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