expensive restaurant

collocation in English

meaningsofexpensiveandrestaurant

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expensive
adjective
uk
/ɪkˈspen.sɪv/us
/ɪkˈspen.sɪv/
costing a lot ...
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restaurant
noun[C]
uk
/ˈres.tər.ɒnt/us
/ˈres.tə.rɑːnt/
a place where meals are prepared and served ...
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(Definition ofexpensiveandrestaurantfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The vast majority of them, however, are people of moderate means who do not care to go to anexpensiverestaurant.
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I suggest that there should be a trimming of luxuries, and that we should cut out these rather pretentious public entertainments and theseexpensiverestaurantmeals.
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It was anexpensiverestaurant.
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The man who goes into a restaurant where he can get refreshments at popular prices, would get the same facilities as the man who goes into anexpensiverestaurant.
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He was known for training with friends and stopping with them at the mostexpensiverestaurantthey could find.
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Their original design cost three-hundred-thousand dollars; it was the mostexpensiverestaurantbuilt in 1956.
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There was also a moreexpensiverestaurant, a salon in length and a large billiard room.
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After their first day of grilling by a financial committee, the two have lunch at anexpensiverestaurantto console themselves over what has happened.
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In recent years, the area was bought by a property developer and turned into anexpensiverestaurantdistrict.
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The very good-looking and persuasive man invites her to have lunch at anexpensiverestaurant, to which she happily agrees.
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A pair of con men work together, one going into anexpensiverestaurantin shabby clothes, eating, and claiming to have left his wallet at home, which is nearby.
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We have a few expensive restaurants, but the general level for ordinary pockets is not good.
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But they will meet the more expensive crooks in the more expensive restaurants.
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At most, he can have them at more expensive restaurants than other people.
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It seems that the expensive restaurants of this country are well stocked but the larders of the small houses are very bare.
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The service charge is an anomaly left over from the second world war, when rationing and price controls led certain expensive restaurants to find ways around the restrictions.
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Sometimes these amateur efforts even equal or surpass the quality of many expensive restaurants.
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Tips between 10%-20% are excepted in more expensive restaurants and hotels.
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The expensive restaurants left the area, since the young professionals left.
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The more expensive restaurants tended to open during the evening.
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