high-priced
adjective
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Meaning of high-priced in English
(Definition of high-priced from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of high-priced
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With a high-priced hardback, they have gone for the assured - but few - sales to academic libraries around the world.
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This would be only after the fourth had won and when they were looking towards the fifth on a very high-priced accumulator.
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Crude oil is more valuable because of the high-priced things it yields in the refineries.
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I am aware that utility clothing sells rapidly while high-priced non-utility garments tend to remain in the shops.
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No community would tolerate a monopoly making intolerable profits out of absurdly high-priced bread.
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That is more possible in the north and in the midlands than in the high-priced areas of the south-east.
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The taxpayer, having paid his subsidy, then pays a second time by buying back his now high-priced goods through the shops.
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It does not just affect the high-priced areas of the south.
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Believing as they do in the trickle-down theory, their primary aim is to bring into inner city areas islands of office development and high-priced accommodation.
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If the coal is high-priced, the electricity generators would want to take power from gas and oil, and that is already beginning to happen.
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It is said that too many high-priced people and expert talents are occupied in defence and it is questioned whether that is right.
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The proof, as everyone knows, is that high-priced oil imports are an intolerable burden.
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We in this country cannot go on following a high-priced fuel policy with a high-priced transport policy.
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They would not have lost a smoke; they would not have diminished the consumption of high-priced cigars or high-priced wines by a single shilling.
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When a restrictive and high-priced monopoly is established it is in the nature of men in this country to challenge it.
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