# expensive

Pronunciation: say "ik-SPEN-siv" /ɪkˈspɛnsɪv/

## Adjective

1. Costing a large amount of money; high in price.
   - Simple: Costing a lot of money to buy or pay for.
   - _The renovation turned out to be far more expensive than they had budgeted for._
   - _Imported wines tend to be expensive because of shipping costs and tariffs._
2. Using a large amount of system time, memory, or processing power.
   - Simple: Using up a lot of computer time, memory, or power.
   - _Recursive functions can be computationally expensive when the input grows large._
   - _Rendering high-resolution graphics is expensive in both memory and processing time._

## Adjective

3. In the habit of spending large sums of money freely, even wastefully. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: In the habit of spending a lot of money freely, sometimes wastefully.

## Other meanings

- (adjective) In cricket, conceding runs at a high rate as a bowler; having a high economy rate.

## Origin

From reconstructed Latin *expēnsīvus, from expendō ("to weigh out or pay out money"), which also gives English expend. It can be analyzed as expense plus -ive, and in the sense of "high-priced" it has largely replaced dear.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/expensive (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).