单词	extortionate
释义	extortionateex‧tor‧tion‧ate /ɪkˈstɔːʃənət $ -ɔːr-/ adjective Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES an extortionate price for car insurance EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS It also allows people access to loans without resorting to the extortionate rates charged by some legitimate credit companies. On top of this, they often charge extortionate rates for support through a tolled number. Paying £40 for it is nothing less than extortionate. The building trades are also riddled with extortionate practices, but here the influence of the Mafia is probably exaggerated. The penalties are even more extortionate for those who had not planned to go into the red. The same fear sustains extortionate bills in some other businesses. Thesaurus Longman Language Activatorwhen something is too expensive► can't afford if you can't afford something, you do not have enough money to buy it or pay for it: · I really need a new coat, but I can't afford one.can't afford to do something: · We couldn't afford to go on holiday last year.can't afford it: · Hiring a lawyer would be expensive, and she just couldn't afford it. ► exorbitant/extortionate prices, charges, rents etc that are exorbitant or extortionate , are very much higher than they should be, and you think they are unfair: · The restaurant charges exorbitant prices for very ordinary food.· Interest rates for some of the credit cards are extortionate. ► be a rip-off spoken informal you say something is a rip-off when you think someone is unfairly charging too much money for it: · Eighty dollars for a pair of jeans? What a rip-off!a complete/total rip-off: · The vacation package we bought ended up being a total rip-off. ► prohibitive/prohibitively expensive prices or costs that are prohibitive or prohibitively expensive are so high that people cannot pay them or decide not to pay them because they are too expensive: · For most people, the cost of living in the centre of town is prohibitive.· The computer was superior to other models, but it was prohibitively expensive. ► inflated prices prices that are much higher than usual and much higher than they should be, so that the person who charges them can make a big profit: · Nightclubs often charge inflated prices for drinks.at inflated prices: · Some people buy large blocks of tickets and then try to sell them at vastly inflated prices. ► steep informal prices, charges, rents etc that are steep seem unusually or surprisingly high: · I think £7 for a drink is a bit steep, don't you?· It's hard to find an apartment around here, and when you do the rents are pretty steep. ► be daylight robbery British /be highway robbery American informal if you say that a price or charge is daylight robbery or highway robbery you mean it is very much higher than it should be: · I'm not paying £5 for an ice-cream - that's daylight robbery!· We knew it was highway robbery, but we had no choice but to pay. ► price something out of the market to make something so expensive that people will no longer buy it because they can buy something similar at a lower price: be priced out of the market: · British electrical equipment is likely to be priced out of the market by cheap imports.price yourself out of the market: · Ford don't want to raise its prices any more - it's worried about pricing itself out of the market. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► exorbitant/extortionate price (=much too high)· £10,000 seemed an exorbitant price for the rug. an extortionate price, demand etc is unreasonably high SYN  exorbitant:  Many local taxi drivers charge extortionate rates.—extortionately adverb
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