expensive item
collocation in Englishmeaningsofexpensiveanditem
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expensive
adjective
uk/ɪkˈspen.sɪv/us/ɪkˈspen.sɪv/
costing a lot ...
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item
noun[C]
uk/ˈaɪ.təm/us/ˈaɪ.t̬əm/
something that is part of a list or group ...
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(Definition ofexpensiveanditemfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The base has now become a veryexpensiveitem.
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That is expensive, and an adequately designed bronze lip or something of that sort to the pool would also be anexpensiveitem.
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It was in order that the personnel might be reduced, that being anexpensiveitem.
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I myself, as a paraplegic, feel the cold; healing is anexpensiveitem.
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Another £20,000 is estimated to be the cost of establishing a number of consultative centres which we do not regard as a veryexpensiveitem.
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It must be anexpensiveitem.
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It is anexpensiveitemand it is at present in the programme.
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That must be a veryexpensiveitemfor the railway in endeavouring to keep up the standard.
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That is the mostexpensiveitem.
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It is a veryexpensiveitem.
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Advertising was anexpensiveitem, amounting to about £26,000, but it is doubtful whether they got value for that money in increased consumption.
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The capital is the mostexpensiveitemin the shipowner's overheads.
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I agree that £15 a year as a net profit does not sound very much for each meter, which may well be quite anexpensiveitem.
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My abiding concern is for a young couple starting out in life buying thatexpensiveitemcalled a house.
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The provision of these buoys and their maintenance can be quite anexpensiveitem.
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The cathode ray tube is a very much moreexpensiveitemof equipment.
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Because the owner-occupier is a much moreexpensiveitemin housing finance than is either the council tenant or the private tenant.
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We all know that animal feeding, stuff are anexpensiveitemin our annual import programme.
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If it is, it is a ratherexpensiveitem, about £50 million to preserve a deposit of about £300 million.
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I do know that increasing the conventional forces is the mostexpensiveitemof all.
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