exorbitant price
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exorbitant
adjective
uk/ɪɡˈzɔː.bɪ.tənt/us/eɡˈzːɔr.bə.t̬ənt/
Exorbitant prices, demands, etc. are much ...
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price
noun[C]
uk/praɪs/us/praɪs/
the amount of money for which something ...
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(Definition ofexorbitantandpricefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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This aspect is where the land superior demands anexorbitantpricefor something about which he has done nothing.
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Is not this anexorbitantpricefor a time-depreciated asset?
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Anexorbitantpriceis being demanded for these shameful types of house.
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For anexorbitantpricedoes not stimulate production appreciably more than a good price; it frequently stimulates it less.
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On the other hand, the disadvantages of anexorbitantprice, or in more popular language, a profiteering price, may he very great.
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Is not the principal grievance theexorbitantpriceattempted to be charged by the petrol combine?
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What is the use of making goodwill a liability unless, of course, it has been purchased at anexorbitantpricesome time ago?
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For this reason we cannot afford to allow their usage and their development to be stifled byexorbitantpricebarriers.
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Then it is said they charged anexorbitantprice.
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Is not it impractical to think of any method of effectively controlling home recording, especially in view of the grosslyexorbitantpriceof gramophone records?
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Sooner or later, it ends up being sold off in a garden centre at anexorbitantpriceas a rock garden wall.
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We have abundant supplies and our people can never understand why they have to pay such anexorbitantpricefor water.
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The offence would be committed if you got a stock of goods and you tried to sell them at anexorbitantprice.
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The person who asks theexorbitantpriceis most certainly exploiting.
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In one sense we can say that this is not anexorbitantpriceto pay for a fair system of administering justice.
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It will not meetexorbitantpricedemands by owners.
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He has had to purchase the house at anexorbitantprice.
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The local authorities may want to buy it, but we will refuse to sell it unless the local authority will give anexorbitantprice.
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I do not think that is anexorbitantpriceto ask for the provision of such a service in the rural areas.
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Now £700 would have been a veryexorbitantpricefor a cottage before the war.
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