Of a high price, high-priced, absolutely or relatively; costly, expensive: the opposite of cheap.

Burdensome; expensive, costly; troublesome.

Extravagant in upkeep.

Bought at a high price, obtained at great cost.

Costly, expensive; sumptuous; (also) lavish in expenditure, extravagant.

Involving, incurring, or characterized by high or excessive expenditure, expensive; (also) involving great loss or sacrifice.

= costly, adj.

Involving or characterized by expenditure or loss (of time, effort, etc.); costly. Now somewhat archaic.

Costly, expensive.

Burdensome (as a tax or payment); costly, expensive. Obsolete. (Formerly the most frequent meaning.)

Of a cost, expense, etc.: involving a large outlay of money; substantial, exorbitant. Obsolete.

Onerous, burdensome; expensive, costly.

Said of things involving heavy expenditure or liability; expensive; heavy. Obsolete.

Of which one bears the cost; expensive.

Burdensome, chargeable, causing expense.

Of a thing: Attended with expense; costly, dear. to come expensive: see come, v. 31b. Also figurative.

Financially weakened; spent. Obsolete. rare.

(of a business or industrial process) requiring the investment of large sums of money; cf. labour-intensive adj. at labour, n. compounds 2.